{"id":111883,"date":"2026-05-13T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/111883\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:32:14","slug":"israel-ramps-up-gaza-attack-by-35-since-iran-truce-war-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/111883\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel ramps up Gaza attack by 35% since Iran truce: War Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel has sharply intensified its attacks in Gaza over the past five weeks, after pausing joint bombing with the U.S. in Iran, redirecting its fire on the devastated enclave, claiming Hamas is tightening its grip.<\/p>\n

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 120 Palestinians, including eight women and 13 children, were killed in Gaza since the Iran war was paused on April 8 \u2013 20% more than in the \u200bfive weeks prior, when Israel was flying sorties over Iran.<\/p>\n

Conflict monitor ACLED, which tracks Israeli \u200battacks \u2060in Gaza, said in a monthly report for April that Israel had carried out 35% more attacks last month than in March.<\/p>\n

The increase in Israeli strikes on Gaza is a further sign of stalled progress under U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to halt the war there and begin reconstruction.<\/p>\n

“The war is still ongoing,” said Lafi al-Najjar, 36, a blind Palestinian, one of whose sons was killed on April 28 in an Israeli attack.<\/p>\n

“It stopped in the announcement, but in reality and on the ground, the war has not stopped,” said Najjar, whose family has been living in a tented camp in the ruins of Khan Younis, once Gaza’s second-largest city.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military did not immediately provide a comment on the reasons for its stepped-up strikes in Gaza. But four Israeli defense officials have told Reuters that the military had warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government \u2060in \u2060recent weeks that Hamas has been tightening its grip, rebuilding its forces and making weapons.<\/p>\n

Another Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Gaza cease-fire allows for Israel to act against imminent threats. The official said the military was prepared for any scenario, including having drawn up wider battle plans for a resumption of fighting in Gaza, though no such order had yet been given.<\/p>\n

Faltering steps toward peace<\/p>\n

The agreement reached last October<\/a> halted major fighting in Gaza after two years of genocidal war. But steps have faltered to reach a permanent settlement that would withdraw Israeli troops, disarm the resistance group and allow the ruined enclave to be rebuilt.<\/p>\n

Israeli forces still occupy more than half of \u2060Gaza<\/a>‘s territory, where they have demolished most remaining buildings and ordered all residents out.<\/p>\n

More than 2 million people now live in a tiny strip of territory along the coast, mainly in damaged structures or makeshift tents, where Hamas members have de facto control.<\/p>\n

Some 850 Palestinians have been killed in \u200bIsraeli strikes since the October cease-fire, according to figures that do not distinguish between combatants and civilians. Four Israeli soldiers were killed \u200bduring the same period.<\/p>\n

Since the pause in the war<\/a> in Iran, several of Israel’s strikes in Gaza have targeted positions held by the Hamas-run police \u2060force. At least \u200c14 police \u200cofficers have been killed since April 14, health and police officials said.<\/p>\n

Nasser Khdour, a \u2060researcher with ACLED, said that over roughly 30 separate incidents in April, Israel \u200ccarried out attacks targeting Hamas, other groups, police personnel, police stations and security checkpoints.<\/p>\n

Most of those attacks took place in areas under Hamas control, “while \u200bshelling, drone strikes, and gunfire continued to take \u2060place near the (armistice line), targeting militants and civilians, including women and children, approaching soldiers,” Khdour said.<\/p>\n

Since \u2060Israel joined the United States in bombing Iran<\/a> in March, its military has operated at a relentless pace, also launching a \u2060ground invasion and air \u200bcampaign in Lebanon against the Iran-aligned Hezbollah movement. Fighting there has slowed but not halted under a separate U.S.-brokered cease-fire.<\/p>\n

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