Published On 5/26/2026
Israel does not appear ready to adhere to the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, which is evident in its continuing violations and its endeavor to create a widespread state of insecurity, unless the world intervenes to disarm the resistance. 8 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in an Israeli raid and bombing that targeted the central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip.
A security source in the Gaza Strip confirmed to Agence France-Presse that an Israeli raid targeted Palestinian citizens as they confronted a local armed gang supported by Tel Aviv that was trying to storm homes in the Maghazi camp under the pretext of tracking down resistance activists.
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An Israeli-backed Palestinian armed group, believed to include hundreds of militants, is stationed in areas under Israeli military control in the southern Gaza Strip.
These groups carried out several kidnappings and killings targeting activists from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the resistance in the southern Gaza Strip, according to what local security sources confirmed.
In turn, Hamas considered that these actions “reveal Israel’s continuation of the war of annihilation it is waging against the Gaza Strip,” and partly blamed the World Peace Council, which it described as silent, incapable, and even biased toward Israel.
The High Representative of the World Peace Council charged with supervising the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, Nikolai Mladenov, recently held consultations to move to the second phase of President Donald Trump’s faltering plan.
But Israel refused to adhere to its pledges. She said that moving towards another stage “will not be possible before Hamas disarms,” stressing that it “will disarm it itself if the international community does not do what is required.”
Feeding chaos
Through this behavior, Israel is trying to create chaos in the Strip by reshaping the geography and supporting local gangs that can undermine Hamas’ control, says Raed Al-Nairat, an expert on Israeli affairs.
Israel, which controls 60% of the Gaza Strip, is trying to create a new area that is not completely under the control of Hamas, and then manipulate the demographic and societal structure in Gaza to make it an unsafe and therefore unlivable place, according to what Al-Nairat said on the “Beyond the News” program.
Therefore, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu – who is wanted by the International Criminal Court – encourages these local armed gangs to operate in the Gaza Strip under the cover of the occupation army, in a way that Al-Nairat says “represents a form of disarming the resistance.”
Political analyst Ahmed Al-Tanani did not differ from the previous opinion, saying that Netanyahu previously announced that “there is no harm in exploiting these groups to reduce the risks facing Israeli soldiers during their work in Gaza.”
Indeed, as Al-Tanani told the “Behind the News” program, the occupation army “does not stop bombing police checkpoints in order to facilitate the work of these gangs that the resistance has decided to eliminate as part of any agreement.”
However, Netanyahu “continues to arm these gangs to ignite a civil war in the Gaza Strip, and he described what happened in Al-Maghazi camp today as if it were an internal Palestinian event while it was planned, financed and supported by Israel,” according to Al-Tanani, who described what is happening as “a form of the occupation’s support for instability in the Gaza Strip, and its failure to adhere to any agreement.”
Disarmament is the solution
On the other hand, former US State Department official Thomas Warrick blames Hamas, which he said “rejects disarmament, and rejects the entry of the Technocrat Committee of the Peace Council into the Gaza Strip, and the International Stabilization Force into the Gaza Strip.”
Warrick went on to say that the reports Washington receives about what is happening in Gaza “are completely contrary to what the Palestinians are saying, and confirm that what Israel is doing is nothing but a response to Hamas’ provocations.”
Therefore, it is not possible to talk about Israeli violations before talking about Hamas’ refusal to hand over its weapons and allow the entry of the international force, which Warrick said would be a prelude to Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the start of implementing the agreement.
However, Al-Tanani responded to this by saying that Hamas “does not refuse the entry of the technocrat committee or the international force,” adding that it “discussed the details of the work of the committee and the international force with the mediators, and formed a committee to overcome the obstacles facing them.”
Hamas also developed a plan to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip, but Israel rejects this plan, according to Al-Tanani, who said that Mladenov “is manipulating the facts and accusing the resistance of obstructing the agreement, because he wants to jump on the agreement, reformulate it, and limit what remains of it to disarmament.”
