{"id":80917,"date":"2025-10-29T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=80917"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:42:13","slug":"gaza-deadly-israeli-airstrikes-kill-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/gaza-deadly-israeli-airstrikes-kill-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceasefire resumes in Gaza after deadly Israeli airstrikes kill at least 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was reinstated in <a title=\"Ceasefire under fire: Israel strikes Gaza after accusing Hamas of attack\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/israel-gaza-after-accusing-hamas-of-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaza<\/a> after it launched a series of powerful airstrikes across the territory, killing at least 81 people, according to local hospitals. The strikes \u2014 the deadliest since the ceasefire took effect on October 10 \u2014 marked the most serious challenge yet to the fragile truce.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Netanyahu orders \u201cpowerful strikes\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the military to carry out \u201cpowerful strikes\u201d after accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire agreement. The militant group responded that it would delay returning the body of another hostage, further straining the truce.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Trump defends Israel\u2019s actions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>While traveling in Asia, U.S. President Donald Trump defended Israel\u2019s response, saying the country was justified in launching the attacks after an Israeli soldier was killed during a firefight in Rafah, southern Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael has every right to hit back when its troops come under attack,\u201d Trump said aboard Air Force One. He added that he remained confident the ceasefire would hold because \u201cHamas is a very small part of the overall Middle East peace. And they have to behave \u2014 or they will be terminated.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Rising civilian death toll<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>At Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, director Mohammed Abu Selmia said 21 of the victims were women and children, and at least 45 people \u2014 including 20 children \u2014 were critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>Other hospitals across Gaza reported similar casualties: Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah said it received 10 bodies, Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis reported 20, and Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza confirmed 30 bodies, including 14 children.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Israel: \u201c30 terrorist commanders targeted\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Israeli military said its strikes targeted \u201c30 terrorist commanders\u201d operating within Gaza and confirmed it had notified the U.S. in advance of the operation. It later stated that it would continue to uphold the ceasefire but would \u201crespond firmly to any violation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chaos in Gaza hospitals<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Ambulances and trucks carrying bodies crowded hospital entrances overnight. In Deir al-Balah, witnesses described scenes of devastation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey struck right next to us. We saw the rubble fall over our children,\u201d said a woman standing outside the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>At dawn, survivors searched through the remains of destroyed shelters. One woman, wrapping a small child\u2019s body in a blanket, asked through tears, \u201cWhat kind of ceasefire is this?\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IDF's Powerful Gaza Strike As Israel Realises Hamas Using Bulldozers To 'Bury Hostage Remains'?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p7MgaIgpBRA\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was reinstated in Gaza after it launched a series of powerful airstrikes across the territory, killing at least 81 people, according to local hospitals. The strikes \u2014 the deadliest since the ceasefire took effect on October 10 \u2014 marked the most serious challenge yet to the fragile truce. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":80918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[68248,3707,14217,77263,3824,3759,267,77159,80112,80162],"class_list":["post-80917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-airstrikes","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-ceasefire","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-rafah","tag-shifa-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80919,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80917\/revisions\/80919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}