The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported a new shelling of the territory of the Jewish state from the Gaza Strip, the press service of the IDF informed that on the morning of January 16, a projectile was found and exploded near the border with the Gaza Strip after the air sirens sounded in the Nir Am settlement. in an uninhabited area.
"The details are being studied," the statement said.In turn, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the Palestinian radical Hamas movement was reneging on the accords, creating a last-minute crisis that is preventing an agreement on the Gaza Strip. The office noted that the Hamas movement "refuses from clear agreements that were agreed upon with mediators and Israel in an attempt to exert pressure at the last moment."
Meanwhile, the official representative of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Izzat ar Rishq, stated that the organization fulfills the terms of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip. "Hamas remains committed to the ceasefire agreement announced by the mediators," ar Rishq wrote on his Telegram channel.
Earlier, the Civil Defense Agency of the Gaza Strip reported that more than 20 people were killed in Gaza as a result of Israeli airstrikes on the night of January 16 after the announcement of the ceasefire agreement.
The ceasefire agreement should enter into force on January 19. It will include 3 stages. during the first phase there must be a full ceasefire, Israeli forces must withdraw from residential areas of Gaza, Hamas must release 33 hostages it is holding in exchange for dozens of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. During the second phase, there should be a complete cessation of hostilities, the other surviving hostages should be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, Israeli forces should withdraw from the Gaza Strip, and the temporary cease-fire should be made permanent. the bodies of the dead hostages must be returned to their families.
