Historically, the Israelis have always used tactics like these, often by bringing in the most force right before implementing a ceasefire.
Upon the announcement that a ceasefire agreement had been reached, the Israeli military decided to carry out more airstrikes against civilian targets, while repeatedly delaying the deal’s implementation. This occurred as Palestinians attempted to celebrate the developments, in some cases, losing their loved ones with whom they hoped to console at the end of the war.
On Thursday, at around 2 AM (Palestine time), the news of a ceasefire agreement broke. According to what was first published, the end of the war was supposed to come at 12 PM that day, leading to a surge in celebrations across the Gaza Strip.
Almost immediately, Israeli media outlets began complaining about the deal, with Yediot Ahronoth even positioning that “Israel lost the war”. Even on social media, Israelis began to express their outrage, with the negative response emojis on some Hebrew telegram channels outwaying the positive ones on posts specifically talking about the return of all Israeli captives.
Israeli occupation forces have just killed my third son, Ibraheem..
RIP my dear son.— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) October 9, 2025
Evidently, when midday in occupied Palestine came, the bombs kept falling. Israel committed a series of civilian massacres, including the bombing of tents and populated buildings, burying dozens under the rubble. These airstrikes even murdered the young son of prominent Palestinian journalist, Motassem al-Dalloul.
Instead of abiding by the original deadline that everyone in Gaza had prepared for, the Israeli leadership decided instead to kick the can down the road. It didn’t just delay the implementation of the ceasefire agreement once, instead opting to change the time frame hour after hour, toying with the population it is committing genocide against, as it killed dozens more civilians in each interval.
Over a week ago, when US President Donald Trump announced that Hamas had accepted his ceasefire proposal, he called upon his Israeli allies to “immediately” stop dropping bombs on the Gaza Strip. Yet, the Israeli military and political leadership openly defied the American President’s orders, continuing their operations as usual and murdering hundreds of civilians.
This is not new, of course, as when the Gaza ceasefire that came into effect this January, the Israelis played a very similar game. At the time, the Israeli military even allowed for the official deadline of the ceasefire to pass, halting all their military operations temporarily and even removing their drones from the territory’s skies.
For around 15 minutes, the people of Gaza were left to celebrate. Al-Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif was hoisted up onto the shoulders of locals as they celebrated the end of the war together.
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Then, Israel began launching airstrikes throughout Gaza and committed a series of civilian massacres. The drones returned, and the military spokesperson announced that operations will continue until Hamas’ hands over a list of Israeli captives.
This was a totally unnecessary violation of the ceasefire, yet it was clearly calculated to inflict a psychological blow on the already tormented and traumatized civilian population of Gaza. Why? Because the Israeli public was outraged at the celebrations in Gaza, and the military wanted to inflict pain on the people for daring to express their joy that the killing was over.
Historically, the Israelis have always used tactics like these, often by bringing in the most force right before implementing a ceasefire as to inflict a lasting impression on the minds of the civilian population. It is a petty tactic that is calculated as a means of psychological warfare and not random; we know this as the brutality they display has no military value whatsoever.
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As phase one of the new ceasefire agreement approached, so did the realization that Israel’s so-called “Operation Gideon’s Chariots 2” was a flop and had failed.
In other words, the Israeli military had sold its people on the lie that they were intent on occupying Gaza City, an operation that would have required a minimum of 200,000 soldiers and at least two years to complete.
Instead, from the get-go, the Israelis barely managed to mobilize an additional 60,000 troops for their operation, many of whom they now claim are headed to the occupied West Bank instead.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
– Robert Inlakesh is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He focuses on the Middle East, specializing in Palestine. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.
I do not believe God is pleased with Israel’s actions in Palestine. How is this attempt to destroy the people of Palestine any different from the Holocaust endured by the Jewish peope in Germany? I condemn the Hamas attack that led to this war, but tens of thousands of civilians– mostly women and children, entire families, hundreds of journalists, scientists, doctors and more should not have been killed in retaliation. Nor should the Hamas attack be used to justify destroying an entire people and their country.
You’re very wrong in condemning Hamas’s very rightful attack against the genocidal Zionist entity, back on October 7th of 2023. As the democratically-elected government of Gaza, and therefore, its protector, what else was Hamas supposed to do, after 18 years of a complete, brutal Israeli blockade against Gaza (by land, air, and sea), which made it nothing more than the equivalent of a concentration camp for its 2.4 million inhabitants. And, of course, “Israel” would very frequently bomb Gaza’s civilians whenever it felt like it. As time went by, it was getting worse and worse for the civilian population of Gaza. Finally, Hamas had no other alternative but to attack, with everything it had.
Every single one of those genocidal Zionist occupation soldiers that were killed in the October 7th Hamas attack, most definitely deserved to be killed. As for the “Israeli” civilians killed on that day, the vast majority of them were killed by their own genocidal army (this has been proven many times up to now), in an attempt to frame Hamas for the killings. “Israel” has absolutely no problem committing massacres against its own civilians, whenever it feels it has something to gain from it.
Even if the October 7th Hamas attack had not taken place, it had always been in Israel’s plans to commit a holocaust inside Gaza. Israel’s genocidal leaders had already revealed their plans to completely remove Gaza’s entire Palestinian population so many times prior to October 7th, 2023. They really wished for Hamas to attack, so that they would have a “justification”, to commit the kind of holocaust they ended up committing over the past 2 years.
Under international law, any country under the occupation of any particular entity, possesses the right to resist, fight back, and liberate itself, by any means necessary. That’s exactly what Hamas did on October 7th, 2023.
In last June’s 12-day war against Iran, the genocidal Jewish Zionist occupiers of Palestine (“Israelis”) failed miserably in “bringing in the most force right before implementing a ceasefire”. In addition to begging their protector, U.S., to request a ceasefire from Iran (as a result of the horrendous damage that those beautiful Iranian missiles inflicted upon “Israel”), it was Iran who struck “Israel” last, a couple minutes right before the ceasefire’s implementation. Indeed, a huge victory for the Iranian homeland!
the IDF is so cowardly. You KNOW there will be a “ceasefire” any time they plan to invade on the ground. They can’t handle an injury (but love to inflict the worst), and they will get their asses kicked. In Lebanon they couldn’t grab an inch until after the Israeli-style “ceasefire”: first, bomb the hell out of civilian cities, then the gov’t pleads with Hezbollah to agree to a truce, then the US grants a huge swath of territory for Israel to keep while it continues firing. They are doing the same thing in Gaza. Also, the sick mentality of Israel ensures that only the worst of humanity will settle there. It is a dead end, so to speak.