by Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous at Drop Site
Hamas officials submitted a two-page report to mediators on Tuesday listing a wide range of Israeli violations of the Gaza ceasefire since the agreement went into effect on January 19—including the killing of civilians, repeated ground and air incursions, the beating and humiliation of Palestinian captives during their release and the deportation of some without their consent, and the denial of humanitarian aid. Drop Site News obtained a copy of the report delivered to mediators from Qatar and Egypt.
“Hamas is committed to the ceasefire agreement if the occupation is committed to the agreement,” Hamas said in a statement. “We confirm that the occupation is the party that did not abide by its commitments, and it bears responsibility for any complications or delays.”
The move comes in response to accusations by U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Hamas violated the agreement, threatening a full resumption of the war—yet it was Israel’s nearly daily breaches of the deal that prompted Hamas to announce it would postpone the next release of Israeli captives.
On Monday, Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for the Al Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, announced the next planned release of three Israeli captives, scheduled for Saturday, would be “postponed indefinitely.” Abu Obeida cited “delays in allowing displaced Palestinians to return to northern Gaza, targeting them with airstrikes and gunfire across various areas of the Strip, and failing to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid as agreed.”
Hamas issued a statement soon afterwards reiterating that Israel was violating…
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