"Even though Israeli airstrikes killed at least 109 people in Gaza on Tuesday — most of them civilians, 46 of them children — U.S. President Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed deliverer of “Peace in the Middle East,” maintains that the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas still holds.
Among Palestinians in Gaza who survived Tuesday’s attacks, however, there is a growing belief that the ceasefire agreement exists only on paper, providing diplomatic cover that allows Israel to continue to kill.
The Intercept asked 60 residents in Gaza, many of them students living in Gaza City, whether they believed the ceasefire still held. Fifty said no. Four said the ceasefire was still in place, but it was fragile and at risk of falling apart. Six expressed hope that the ceasefire would remain.
Residents described nights filled with explosions and mornings shadowed by tension, as Gaza braced itself for what may come next.
“I panicked and my body shook violently,” said 20-year-old Aya Nasser, a university student who recalled Tuesday’s attacks to The Intercept. She was in bed when, just after midnight, she heard an Israeli missile explode 30 meters from her home. A second followed shortly after.
Nasser said she later learned that the Israeli strike had hit a nearby home and killed nine people from a single family: a grandmother, a father, a daughter-in-law, four children, and two grandchildren."
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/30/gaza-ceasefire-israel-bombing-airstrike/
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