Israel “will respond accordingly” to an incident in southern Gaza’s Rafah today in which an Israeli officer was lightly wounded after his APC ran over an explosive device, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
“The Hamas terror organization continues to violate the ceasefire and President Trump’s 20 point plan,” says the PMO in an announcement published only in English.
“Their ongoing and continuing public refusal to disarm is an ongoing flagrant violation and again today their violent intentions and violations were confirmed by their detonation of an IED that wounded an IDF officer,” the PMO continues.
It is unclear whether the bomb was recently planted in the area by terror operatives or if it was an old explosive device.
The English-language statement comes days before Netanyahu is set to fly to Florida to meet with US President Donald Trump to discuss the next steps in the fragile Gaza ceasefire.
“Hamas must be held to the agreement that they signed on [sic] which includes removal from governance, demilitarization and de-radicalization,” concludes the PMO.
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