Israel has once again violated the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip through three assassinations carried out in the past two days, culminating a week of media preparations to expand the scope of the occupation army’s operations in the Strip. While Israel justified the first two operations by claiming that the targets posed a threat to forces deployed near the “yellow line,” it seems difficult to apply the same pretext to the third assassination. This operation targeted Colonel Jamal Mahmoud Abu Kamil, the head of the civilian police in Gaza Governorate, while he was driving his car on Rashid Street in western Gaza City, deep within the Strip and far from the “yellow line.” However, the enemy army later claimed to have killed “a Hamas commander who participated in the October 7 attack.”
These targeted killings appear to be a prelude to resuming assassinations on a wider scale, ultimately leading to a complete abandonment of the truce agreement. Over the past few days, Israeli channels broadcast dozens of reports claiming that resistance fighters had attempted to cross the “yellow line” more than 70 times. In this context, Army Radio published a lengthy report alleging that “military units operating in the sector received information about a gathering of more than 50 armed members of the Qassam Brigades” in an area near the “yellow line,” and that these fighters had planned, during the days when the army’s operations in Gaza were restricted, to “carry out an infiltration operation into settlements adjacent to Gaza,” but the restrictions on the use of live fire “prevented targeting them.” The following day, Channel 15 denied these claims.
Israel has once again violated the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip through three assassinations carried out in the past two days, culminating a week of media preparations to expand the scope of the occupation army’s operations in the Strip. While Israel justified the first two operations by claiming that the targets posed a threat to forces deployed near the “yellow line,” it seems difficult to apply the same pretext to the third assassination. This operation targeted Colonel Jamal Mahmoud Abu Kamil, the head of the civilian police in Gaza Governorate, while he was driving his car on Rashid Street in western Gaza City, deep within the Strip and far from the “yellow line.” However, the enemy army later claimed to have killed “a Hamas commander who participated in the October 7 attack.”
These targeted killings appear to be a prelude to resuming assassinations on a wider scale, ultimately leading to a complete abandonment of the truce agreement. Over the past few days, Israeli channels broadcast dozens of reports claiming that resistance fighters had attempted to cross the “yellow line” more than 70 times. In this context, Army Radio published a lengthy report alleging that “military units operating in the sector received information about a gathering of more than 50 armed members of the Qassam Brigades” in an area near the “yellow line,” and that these fighters had planned, during the days when the army’s operations in Gaza were restricted, to “carry out an infiltration operation into settlements adjacent to Gaza,” but the restrictions on the use of live fire “prevented targeting them.” The following day, Channel 15 denied these claims.
