A Hamas leadership delegation met with Turkey’s foreign and intelligence ministers in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday to communicate how they feel Israel is not maintaining their end of the fragile ceasefire currently in place on Tuesday.
The ceasefire, which went into effect on Oct. 10, included an agreement to increase the amount of humanitarian aid entering Gaza and to open additional crossing points into Gaza.
Twelve days into the ceasefire, additional border crossing points have not opened. Aid organizations, like the World Food Program, are saying that while the amount of aid getting into Gaza has increased, it’s still not as much as is needed.
Israel has alleged that Hamas is violating the terms of the ceasefire because the remains of all of the dead hostages who were still being held in Gaza have not been returned to Israel yet. The Trump administration has pushed back on this claim, saying that Hamas is working to return the remains of hostages, some of which could be under rubble or their whereabouts are unknown.
Hamas said Israel is “stalling the implementation of the agreement through repeated violations in recent days, failing to open the Rafah Crossing for the travel of patients and the wounded and preventing the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.”
