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22-10-2025
GAZA STRIP: Israel has killed at least 97 Palestinians and injured 230 others since the start of the ceasefire, and violated the truce agreement 80 times, the Gaza Government Media Office says.
The Israeli military has killed dozens of Palestinians in a wave of air raids that it said were in response to a ceasefire violation by Hamas, which the group has denied.
US President Donald Trump says the ceasefire in Gaza is still in effect, stressing that Washington is working to ensure that the situation is “very peaceful”.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 68,159 people and wounded 170,203 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.
US congresswoman says Americans ‘sick’ of paying for war
Marjorie Taylor Greene says that despite Trump’s efforts to end the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, the violence continues.
“Enough! Everyone is sick of these wars and sick of paying for them,” Greene said in a social media post. “It’s time to put all the attention on the American people and solving our problems.”
The right-wing congresswoman, who previously described the assault on Gaza as a genocide, has emerged as one of the most vocal Republican critics of Israel.
Macron, MBS discuss situation in Gaza, ‘complete Israeli withdrawal’
French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) have discussed the situation in the Gaza Strip, including efforts to end the war, in a phone call.
According to the Saudi Press Agency, the two leaders spoke about the need to “immediately alleviate the humanitarian suffering” of Palestinians and “achieve a complete Israeli withdrawal”.
They also discussed taking “practical steps to achieve a just peace based on the two-state solution”, a political approach the two countries have worked together to promote, including at a recent conference in New York.
Israel resumed enforcing ceasefire after security consultations
On Sunday night, the Israeli military said that it was going back to enforcing the ceasefire agreement after a directive from the country’s political echelon.
The military also said that it would be responding firmly to any violations of the ceasefire that they felt were taking place now.
Earlier in the day, on Sunday, two Israeli soldiers were killed and three others injured in an [alleged] attack that Hamas is denying responsibility for but the Israeli prime minister held a security consultation on Sunday about how Israel is going to respond and what they are going to do moving forward.
There are still 16 bodies of Israeli captives being held in Gaza, and Netanyahu says that he’s going to continue cutting humanitarian aid in half and not going to be willing to discuss the second part of Trump’s plan until those hostages are released but we are expecting some high-profile visits in Israel this week.
The American envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, along with Jared Kushner, two people who were instrumental in the ceasefire negotiations, and later on in the week, the American vice president, JD Vance, will visit Israel to discuss the implementation of the next parts of Trump’s deal.
The US vice president suggests that international peacekeepers need to deploy to Gaza to maintain security in the territory before Hamas disarms.
“Before we actually can ensure that Hamas is properly disarmed, that’s going to require… some of these Gulf Arab states to get forces in there to actually apply some law and order and some security-keeping on the ground,” Vance told reporters. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
