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CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Hamas fighters tightened their grip in Gaza on Tuesday aft carrying retired nationalist executions, defying Israel's assertion that warfare cannot extremity nether U.S. President Donald Trump's program until the militants are disarmed.
In a stark assertion of the group's return, fighters executed men they accused of collaborating with Israeli forces. In 1 video circulated precocious connected Monday, Hamas fighters dragged 7 men into a ellipse of radical successful Gaza City, forced them to their knees and changeable them from behind. A Hamas source confirmed the authenticity of the video.
Gaza residents said fighters were progressively disposable connected Tuesday, deploying on routes needed for assistance deliveries. Palestinian information sources accidental dozens of radical person been killed successful clashes between Hamas fighters and rivals successful caller days.
Although Israeli troops person withdrawn from municipality areas successful Gaza nether the ceasefire that began past week, drone occurrence killed 5 radical arsenic they went to cheque connected houses successful a suburb eastbound of Gaza City and an aerial onslaught killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured different adjacent Khan Younis, Gaza wellness authorities said.
Hamas accused Israel of violating the ceasefire. The Israeli subject said it had fired connected radical who crossed truce lines and approached its forces aft ignoring calls to crook back.
Trump proclaims 'Historic Dawn' but hurdles stay
Hamas' resumption of powerfulness successful Gaza and continued flashes of unit underscore the daunting hurdles facing efforts to move Trump's ceasefire plan towards a longer-term solution of the conflict.
While Trump proclaimed the "historic dawn of a caller Middle East" to Israel's parliament connected Monday, immoderate of the astir hard elements of his plan have yet to beryllium negotiated to resoluteness issues that wrecked erstwhile efforts to extremity the war.
Israeli forces stay entrenched crossed overmuch of Gaza aft their partial pullback wrong the tiny, crowded territory. Promised increases successful assistance deliveries person not yet materialized for a colonisation of 2.2 cardinal people, galore facing famine.
A acme co-hosted by Trump successful Egypt connected Monday ended with nary nationalist announcement of large advancement towards establishing an planetary subject unit for Gaza, oregon a caller governing body. The remains of astatine least 23 dead hostages stay successful Gaza.
Hamas asserts control
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has consistently maintained that the warfare cannot extremity until Hamas gives up its weapons and ceases to power Gaza, a request that the fighters person rejected, torpedoing each erstwhile bid efforts.
When Hamas fighters appeared successful the streets during the past ceasefire successful January-March, Israel abandoned the truce and called disconnected negotiations connected an extremity to the war. But Trump, having announced that the warfare is present over, said connected Monday Hamas still had a impermanent greenish airy to support order.
"They bash privation to halt the problems, and they've been unfastened astir it, and we gave them support for a play of time," helium said.
Hamas sources told Reuters connected Tuesday the radical would tolerate nary much violations of bid successful Gaza and would people collaborators, equipped looters and cause dealers.
The group, though greatly weakened aft 2 years of pummelling Israeli bombardment and crushed incursions, has been gradually reasserting itself with remaining fighters moving backmost onto the streets since the ceasefire took clasp implicit the weekend.
The group, which has governed Gaza since 2007, besides deployed hundreds of workers to commencement rubble clearing cardinal routes needed to entree damaged oregon destroyed lodging and to repair breached h2o pipes.
Road clearance and information proviso volition besides beryllium needed for accrued assistance delivery. Hamas says hundreds of policemen were killed by Israel portion protecting assistance routes during the war. Israel said it was targeting Hamas fighters.
Efforts for assistance and hostage care
The ceasefire has stopped 2 years of devastating warfare successful Gaza triggered by the October 7, 2023 onslaught successful which Hamas-led gunmen killed astir 1,200 radical and seized 251 hostages according to Israeli tallies.
Israel's subject run successful Gaza killed astir 68,000 people according to section wellness authorities, with thousands much feared dormant nether the rubble. Gaza's Civil Defence Service said 250 bodies had been recovered since the truce began.
Swathes of Gaza are successful ruins and the planetary hunger show said successful August determination was famine successful the territory. Reuters video connected Tuesday showed radical clearing debris from streets and an assistance motortruck moving done a marketplace protected by equipped men sitting connected top.
UNICEF spokeswoman Tess Ingram said that portion assistance was getting into Gaza with tents, tarpaulin sheets, wintertime clothes, household hygiene kits and different captious items, she hoped for a important summation aboriginal this week.
In Israel, aft Monday's jubilation astatine the instrumentality of the past 20 surviving hostages, families of those declared dormant awaited connection from Israeli authorities connected the destiny of their loved ones.
The Israeli subject said connected Tuesday that the bodies of 4 hostages handed implicit by Hamas the erstwhile time had been identified. One of them was a Nepalese student, the subject said. This leaves 23 hostages successful Gaza formally declared dead, positive 1 whose destiny is undetermined.
Some families fearfulness their loved ones' remains volition beryllium mislaid everlastingly successful the rubble of Gaza. A peculiar planetary task unit is meant to assistance find bodies which Hamas is not capable to find.
(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi successful Cairo and Maayan Lubell successful Jerusalem. Additional reporting by Emma Farge successful Geneva. Writing by Angus McDowall)
