{"id":314999,"date":"2025-10-19T03:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314999\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T03:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:17:16","slug":"hamas-may-be-planning-attack-on-palestinian-civilians-u-s-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314999\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas may be planning attack on Palestinian civilians, U.S. says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The terrorist group Hamas<\/a> may be planning an attack on “Palestinian civilians” in the Gaza Strip, the U.S. State Department announced Saturday.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the State Department said that it “informed the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace agreement of credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas against the people of Gaza.”<\/p>\n

It did not provide any details on the potential attack, the target or location, or when it might occur, only saying that it “would constitute a direct and grave violation of the ceasefire agreement and undermine the significant progress achieved through mediation efforts.”<\/p>\n

“Should Hamas proceed with this attack, measures will be taken to protect the people of Gaza and preserve the integrity of the ceasefire,” the State Department added. It did not disclose what those measures might entail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This also comes\u00a0after CBS News obtained a video<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday which shows armed Hamas fighters standing over Palestinians they have accused of being gang members collaborating with Israel. Moments later in the video, they execute them.<\/p>\n

Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin told CBS News that the video depicts a long pattern of punishment that Hamas uses against suspected collaborators with Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Hamas is killing them because they can,” Baskin told CBS News this week. “Hamas is a criminal organization that has ruled the Palestinian people in Gaza for almost 20 years. This is not a democratic, liberal regime.”<\/p>\n

Baskin also explained that Palestinian militia groups that are opposed to Hamas had been armed by Israel\u00a0during the war<\/a>\u00a0in an effort to weaken Hamas’ power.<\/p>\n

“Israel has empowered, with weapons and money, gangs of Palestinians who were involved in mostly illegal activities in the past \u2014 selling drugs, illegal smuggling \u2014 and they’ve empowered them as an alternative to Hamas,” Baskin said. “This is not sustainable.”<\/p>\n

President Trump on Tuesday appeared to acknowledge that Hamas was engaged in violence against Palestinian militia groups.<\/p>\n

“They did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad gangs, very, very bad,” Mr. Trump said of Hamas while speaking with reporters. “And that didn’t bother me much, to be honest with you.”<\/p>\n

\"Palestinians<\/p>\n

Palestinians gather at a market in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, more than a week after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas took hold, on Oct. 18, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BASHAR TALEB\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Hamas’ role in Gaza’s future remains murky. Israel has demanded that Hamas disarm, and the ceasefire deal calls for it to relinquish its governance of the Palestinian territory to a “technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza.”<\/p>\n

On Monday, Mr. Trump and world leaders signed onto\u00a0the U.S.-brokered agreement<\/a>\u00a0designed to bring a halt to the two-year Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n

As part of the deal, Hamas released 20 living hostages, while Israel released about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. Israel also pulled its troops back to a preapproved line in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The deal also calls for Hamas to release the remains of 28 deceased hostages, but so far it has only released the remains of 10 of those.\u00a0Another two bodies<\/a>\u00a0were released by Hamas Saturday, but they are pending identification.<\/p>\n

According to the Associated Press, Israel has so far returned to Gaza the bodies of 135 Palestinians as part of the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The terrorist group Hamas may be planning an attack on “Palestinian civilians” in the Gaza Strip, the U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4526,4527,51,99,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-314999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-gaza-strip","9":"tag-hamas","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115398671029520967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}