Posted on 10/28/25
| News Source: JPost
Tel Aviv, Israel - Oct. 28, 2025 - The IDF struck Hamas-used infrastructure in southern Gaza after members of the terror group fired at soldiers, the Prime Minister's Office confirmed on Tuesday.
Hamas fired an anti-tank missile and gunshots at IDF troops in Rafah, marking an additional ceasefire violation by the terrorist group.
"The response to [Hamas's] current violations will be much more significant than the response last time," an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post.
The IDF is returning fire in order to stop Hamas from further endangering soldiers on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line, according to a military source.
Following a situational assessment and with the approval of Defense Minister Israel Katz, the security restrictions that have been in place in the Gaza border communities since October 7 by the IDF have been lifted.
Israel is working on five options in case Hamas fails to deliver on returning the hostage remains, Israeli security officials said on Monday, including extending operational control, targeted escalation, hostage-remains-retrieval operations, diplomatic pressure, and ending existing agreements.
Hamas is also capable of returning a double-digit number of deceased hostages' remains and is not making enough effort to return the remains despite knowing their burial locations, an Israeli source told public broadcaster KAN News two weeks ago.
Even so, the terror group has stated several times that it cannot locate all the murdered hostages in the Gaza Strip, stressing as recently as earlier the same evening that it has already handed over all the hostages it could access.
Locating the remaining hostages would require extensive efforts and special equipment, the terror group claimed.