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White House backs Israel’s Gaza strikes in response to Hamas violations — US official
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
The Trump administration backs Israel’s airstrikes in Gaza in response to what Washington asserts was an earlier Hamas violation of the ceasefire this afternoon, a US official tells The Times of Israel.
The US official says that a Hamas operative opened fire on Israeli troops stationed near a recently opened humanitarian route.
Notably, the US official argues that Hamas’s leaders abroad are in favor of maintaining the ceasefire but are unable to rein in operatives on the ground.
Arab mediators maintain that while Hamas fighters have carried out a number of ceasefire violations in recent weeks, Israel’s responses have been disproportionate and have led to too many civilian deaths, an Arab diplomat says.
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