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At least nine have reportedly been killed after Benjamin Netanyahu sanctioned his military to carry out ‘powerful strikes in Gaza yesterday after accusing Hamas of violating the US-brokered ceasefire.

The Israeli prime minister said the militant group had broken the truce by faking the return of a hostage’s remains and by opening fire on IDF forces.

Israel claims Hamas militants were caught on drone footage staging the ‘discovery’ of a hostage’s remains, only to send back body parts that actually belonged to an Israeli who had already been recovered nearly two years ago.

Officials said the deception was a ‘clear violation’ of the ceasefire, which requires Hamas to return all remaining hostage remains immediately.

Nine people have reportedly killed in the latest Israeli strikes, Gaza’s civil defence agency has claimed in their latest statement.

The escalation came amid reports of gunfire in Rafah, where Israeli troops came under attack on Tuesday. The IDF said its soldiers were targeted by Hamas militants.

Israeli defence minister Israel Katz stated Hamas ‘will pay a heavy price’ for their actions. An Israeli military official added: ‘Hamas violated the ceasefire once again.’

Elsewhere, the IDF’s chief of staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir said Israel would ‘not remain silent’ over the alleged breaches.

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Hamas says it has recovered the body of an Israeli hostage from a tunnel in Gaza and has vowed to return it after an earlier overnight exchange was branded a fake by Israel. An image shows Hamas militants carry a white bag, believed to contain the remains, after retrieving it from a tunnel in Khan Younis today

Israel has accused Hamas of faking the discovery of hostage remains, claiming the group sent back body parts belonging to a captive who was already returned to Israel nearly two years ago.  Pictured: Hamas operatives appear to stage the ‘recovery’ of the remains of a hostage

The IDF has released drone footage that it claims shows Hamas operatives staging the ‘recovery’ of the remains of a hostage in Gaza City

An Israeli military official also told the Daily Mail: ‘Hamas violated the ceasefire once again, carrying out an attack against IDF forces east to the yellow line, an area under Israeli control. This is yet another blatant violation of the ceasefire.

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‘This comes after Hamas has also shown their true face and the fact that that are pretending to not know where the remaining hostages are.’

However, Hamas yesterday denied responsibility for the attack in Rafah and said it remained committed to the ceasefire deal. 

There are still 13 bodies of hostages believed to be in Gaza. Hamas said on Tuesday it had recovered the body of another hostage that it planned to hand over this evening, but has now refused to go ahead with the exchange over the Israeli strikes.

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‘We will postpone the handover that was scheduled for today due to the occupation’s violations,’ Hamas’s armed wing said in a statement, adding that any Israeli ‘escalation will hinder the search, excavation, and recovery of the bodies’.

Reporters and witnesses alike are said to have heard tank fire and saw explosions in various parts of Gaza, including in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah, on Tuesday.

‘That’s doesn’t mean there aren’t going to be little skirmishes here and there,’ Mr Vance told reporters on Capitol Hill.

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In AFP footage, several masked Hamas fighters are seen emerging from a tunnel carrying a body wrapped in a white plastic bag, believed to be that of a hostage Hamas had planned to hand over on Tuesday.

Behind them trails a crowd of men and children, some raising their mobile phones to capture the moment.

Hamas handed over late on Monday what it said was the 16th of 28 hostage bodies it had agreed to return under the ceasefire deal, which came into effect on October 10.

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But Israeli forensic examination determined Hamas had in fact handed over partial remains of a hostage whose body had already been brought back to Israel around two years ago, according to Netanyahu’s office.

In returning only the partial remains of an already returned captive, Netanyahu’s office and a campaign group representing hostage families accused Hamas of breaching the ceasefire.

Netanyahu’s office decried a ‘clear violation of the agreement’ after identification procedures revealed the latest remains belonged ‘to the fallen hostage Ofir Tzarfati, who had been returned from the Gaza Strip in a military operation about two years ago’.

Israeli government spokeswoman, Shosh Bedrosian, told journalists that ‘in terms of consequences for Hamas nothing is off the table right now, but all of this is in full coordination with the United States, with (US) President (Donald) Trump and his team.’

Bedrosian also accused Hamas of staging the discovery of Tzarfati’s remains.

‘I can confirm to you today that Hamas dug a hole in the ground yesterday, placed the partial remains of Ofir inside of it, covered it back up with dirt, and handed it over to the Red Cross,’ she said.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum has urged the Israeli government to take action.

‘In light of Hamas’s severe breach of the agreement last night… the Israeli government cannot and must not ignore this, and must act decisively against these violations,’ the forum said, accusing Hamas of knowing the location of the missing hostages.

According to the troops who spoke to Arutz Sheva, the terrorists placed the body in a hole that they had dug, and called the Red Cross as if they had just located it

Pictured: Red Cross transports the body of a deceased hostage, who had been held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023, attack on October 27

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israeli forces had received a coffin containing what Hamas said was the sixteenth of 28 bodies of hostages taken in the October 7, 2023 attacks

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem rejected claims the group knows where the remaining bodies are, arguing that Israel’s bombardment during the two-year conflict had left locations unrecognisable.

‘The movement is determined to hand over the bodies of the Israeli captives as soon as possible once they are located,’ he told AFP.

Hamas has already returned all 20 living hostages as agreed in the ceasefire deal.

Hamas also accused Israel of ceasefire violations, with the territory’s health ministry saying that at least 94 people had been killed in Israeli fire since the truce began.

On the ground in Gaza, 60-year-old Abdul-Hayy al-Hajj Ahmed told AFP he was afraid the war would start again because of the mounting pressure on Hamas.

‘Now they accuse Hamas of stalling, and that is a pretext for renewed escalation and war,’ he said.

‘We want to rest. I believe the war will come back.’

US Vice-President JD Vance insisted the ceasefire ‘is holding’ despite the Israeli action. He added: ‘That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes here and there.’ 

Since the ceasefire began on October 10, the ceasefire has largely held despite two incidents of violence.  

On October 19, Israel said two Israeli soldiers were killed by Hamas fire. 

Israel responded with a series of strikes killing over 40 Palestinians, according to local health officials.

Over the weekend, Israel reportedly carried out an airstrike against what were believed to b, wounding several people.

The return of hostages from Gaza poses a challenge in the next stages of the ceasefire, which will address complex issues such as the disarmament of Hamas, as well as deciding who will govern Gaza.

Over the weekend, Egypt reportedly deployed a team of experts and heavy equipment to help search for the bodies of the remaining hostages, with work continuing in Khan Younis and Nuseirat on Tuesday. 

An Arab official involved in negotiating the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas claimed talks were under way with both sides to try to prevent the truce from collapsing.

‘Both sides violated the agreement, but there was no significant breach,’ said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Violations included delays in handing over bodies and evacuating patients in Gaza, the failure to open the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, the limited scale-up of aid delivery, and ‘minor skirmishes’ on the line that separates Israeli troops from the rest of Gaza, the official said.

Israel’s far-right national security minister accused Hamas of stalling the release of the remaining bodies.

‘It is time to break its legs once and for all,’ Itamar Ben Gvir wrote on X.

During their October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Hamas militants took 251 people hostage, most of whom had been released, rescued or recovered before this month’s ceasefire.

The attack itself resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people on the Israeli side, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

Israel’s subsequent assault on Gaza killed at least 68,531 people, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry that the UN considers reliable.

Despite the ceasefire, the toll has continued to climb as more bodies are found under the rubble.

Ofir Tzarfati was at the Nova music festival on October 7 when he was ‘abducted into captivity, where he was murdered’, the hostage forum said.

It added that this was the third time remains belonging to him had been returned, after his body was recovered at the end of 2023, and additional remains were returned in March 2024.

‘This is the third time we have been forced to open Ofir’s grave and rebury our son,’ Tzarfati’s family were quoted as saying in the statement from the forum.

‘The circle supposedly ‘closed’ back in December 2023, but it never truly closes.’