Hamas has firmly rejected media reports alleging that it terminated its ceasefire agreement with Israel, accusing Tel Aviv of spreading false information to legitimize a renewed wave of assaults on Gaza.

The Palestinian resistance movement stressed that it remains committed to the truce signed last month and urged mediators to pressure Israel to honor its obligations.

Izzet er-Risk, head of Hamas’s Media Office, issued a written statement dismissing claims that the group had informed U.S. officials of the agreement’s collapse. “Israeli sources’ claims that Hamas told Witkoff the agreement ended have no basis in reality,” er-Risk said, referring to Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East. He warned that such allegations are part of a broader Israeli strategy to manipulate public perception and excuse further aggression.

The denial came as Israel carried out a series of deadly strikes across Gaza, killing more than 20 Palestinians—including women and children—in attacks that devastated multiple neighborhoods in a single day. Dozens of others were wounded, deepening fears that Israel is systematically eroding the ceasefire through continuous violations.

Hamas said Israel is manufacturing pretexts to abandon the truce and return to what the group described as a “war of annihilation” against the besieged population of Gaza. “The party that violates the agreement every day and systematically is Israel,” er-Risk stated, accusing Tel Aviv of deliberately escalating tensions.

The resistance movement called on mediators, including the United States, to reveal the identity of the alleged armed individual Israel claims Hamas sent into a demarcation zone. Hamas said Israel’s accusations lack credibility and appear designed to justify new military operations.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office claimed that a Palestinian individual had attacked Israeli soldiers on the Israeli-controlled side of the Yellow Line—a buffer zone inside Gaza—prompting its forces to carry out targeted operations in which Israel says it killed five senior Hamas members. Hamas disputes both the narrative and Israel’s justification for further attacks.

Conflicting accounts intensified after Saudi-based Al Arabiya television claimed that Hamas had informed Witkoff that the ceasefire was over and that the movement was ready to resume fighting. Hamas categorically denied the report, reiterating that it has not withdrawn from the agreement and continues to call for enforcement—not dissolution—of the truce.

The ceasefire, signed on October 10, was meant to halt hostilities and open the door to humanitarian relief for Gaza’s 2.3 million residents, who remain trapped under blockade and repeated military assaults. Hamas has repeatedly demanded that the United States and other mediating countries act decisively to curb Israeli violations, warning that continued aggression threatens to collapse the fragile calm.

The Yellow Line—established in earlier stages of Israeli-Palestinian arrangements—remains a disputed buffer zone where Israel maintains heavy control. Palestinians see it as part of the broader matrix of restrictive measures used to enforce the siege and fragment Gaza’s territorial space.

As violence intensifies, Hamas insists that the responsibility for maintaining or jeopardizing the ceasefire lies squarely with Israel, accusing Tel Aviv of deliberately pushing the region toward renewed conflict while attempting to shift blame onto the Palestinian resistance. (ILKHA)