U.S. President Donald Trump pressed Hamas to act faster in returning the bodies of deceased hostages amid a delicate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire deal by withholding the bodies of the remaining 13 deceased hostages thought to have died during or after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
Hamas has said the return of the remaining bodies "may take some time" due to the destruction wrought in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday instructed the country's military to "carry out powerful strikes in Gaza," a statement from his office said, in response to alleged ceasefire violations by Hamas.
The Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday they had resumed the ceasefire.
Hamas said it had "no connection" to the shooting incident in Gaza earlier Tuesday, in a statement.
This is the incident Israeli authorities said led to the decision for Israeli forces to conduct strikes in Gaza on Tuesday.
Hamas called Israel's decision to strike parts of Gaza on Tuesday a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire agreement," and said it was one of a "series of violations" committed by Israel in recent days.
Hamas added they are committed to the ceasefire and called on mediators to take "immediate action" to pressure Israel to adhere to the terms of the agreement.
-ABC News' Diaa Ostaz
Oct 28, 2025, 2:57 PM EDT
Netanyahu informed Trump of plan to strike Gaza: Officials
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the decision to conduct strikes in Gaza with the Israeli Defense Forces and then informed President Donald Trump before the action was taken, an Israeli official and a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Anne Flaherty
Oct 28, 2025, 2:26 PM EDT
Explosions heard in Gaza after Netanyahu orders strikes
Two explosions were heard coming from the eastern areas of Deir al Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip in the past hour. ABC News does not know the source of these explosions at this time.
There has been no official word from either party -- Israel or Hamas -- on any action on the ground in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that strikes would resume on Gaza earlier on Tuesday.
Israel decided to carry out strikes in Gaza because of an attack on Israel Defense Forces troops in the IDF-controlled area of Gaza, east of the yellow line, on Tuesday, and for "violating the agreement," to return the remains of all the dead hostages still being held in Gaza, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement Tuesday.
Hamas militants carry a white bag believed to contain a body, after retrieving it from a tunnel during a search for the remains of hostages in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Oct. 28, 2025.
Jehad Alshrafi/AP
"The attack on IDF soldiers in Gaza today by the Hamas terrorist organization is crossing a bright red line to which the IDF will respond with great force," Katz said in the statement, originally in Hebrew.
"Hamas will pay with compound interest for attacking the soldiers and violating the agreement to return the fallen hostages," he added.
As a part of the ceasefire deal, the IDF withdrew to an established yellow line in Gaza. IDF troops control parts of Gaza east of the yellow line -- at these borders, the IDF still controls more than 50% of Gaza.
Hamas attacked IDF troops in this area of Gaza on Tuesday, violating of the ceasefire agreement, two Israeli officials told ABC News.
Israeli authorities were also particularly aggravated after the remains returned by Hamas via the Red Cross on Monday night were identified as a hostage whose remains had previously been found in Gaza by IDF troops, one Israeli military official said.
The military official said one of the IDF’s surveillance cameras captured footage they say shows Hamas staging the discovery of a body in Gaza in front of the Red Cross on Monday.
-ABC News’ Diaa Ostaz and Jordana Miller
Oct 28, 2025, 1:04 PM EDT
Hamas says it will delay handover of hostage body over Israel's ceasefire 'violations'
Hamas said it will delay the planned handover of a hostage body to Israel because of Israel’s "violations" of the ceasefire.
Hamas previously said it would hand over the remains of a hostage to Israeli authorities at 8 p.m. local time.
