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Gaza Truce Under Strain as Hamas Reasserts Control, Returns More Remains, Trump Threatens to Disarm

Israeli curbs on Rafah plus aid deliveries follow delays over returning all bodies, complicating the shift to demilitarization.

Overview

  • Hamas expanded security deployments across Gaza and conducted a crackdown that included reported public executions of alleged collaborators, with fierce clashes reported in Gaza City's Shuja'iya district.
  • Overnight, four additional hostages' bodies were transferred to the Red Cross, bringing the total returned to eight of the 28 expected under the ceasefire terms, after the release of the last 20 living hostages on Monday.
  • Israel said it would keep the Rafah crossing closed and restrict humanitarian shipments in response to the slow handover of remains, while UN agencies urged the opening of all entry points to scale up relief.
  • President Donald Trump warned the United States would move to disarm Hamas if it does not disarm itself, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressed for full demilitarization and an end to weapons production and smuggling in Gaza.
  • Israeli forces retain control over roughly half the enclave under the plan's phased pullback, Gaza authorities reported six fatalities from Israeli fire in separate incidents, and residents and officials stressed urgent needs for access, road clearing and construction materials.