Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday that 16 Palestinians were killed and 16 injured were taken to hospitals in the Gaza Strip during the past 48 hours , as a result of the continued violations and aggressions of the Israeli occupation army.
The medical sources explained in their statistical report that among the victims are 6 new martyrs, a martyr who was affected by his injuries, and 9 martyrs whose bodies were recovered from under the rubble, stressing that a number of victims are still on the roads and under the rubble in light of the inability of the ambulance and civil defense teams to reach them.
Cumulative Tally and Victims of the Truce
Official statements issued by medical sources in the Gaza Strip indicated that the death toll of violations of the ceasefire agreement in force since October 2025 reached 1,066 deaths and 3,445 injuries, thus raising the cumulative toll of the ongoing Israeli aggression and genocide on the Gaza Strip since October 7 , 2023 to 73,090 173,553 people have been injured in a conflict that has left 90% of civilian infrastructure devastated, at a cost of reconstruction estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
Israeli Assessments of Return to Fighting
Israel's Channel 12 quoted political and military assessments in Tel Aviv that the war in the Gaza Strip could resume within two months and ahead of the legislative elections scheduled for next October.
Israel is expected to declare that the Peace Council, chaired by U.S. President Donald Trump and overseeing reconstruction and transition, will declare that Hamas is violating the agreement by still retaining its weapons, giving the IDF a legal pretext to operate militarily in territory currently under its control.
Hamas' Response and Schedules for the Reconstruction of the "Yellow Zone"
Leading Hamas sources revealed that the leadership of the resistance succeeded, through intensive coordination with mediators, in excluding any formulations that could be interpreted as surrender or disarmament within the road map put forward by the Director General of the Peace Council, Nickolay Mladenov.
Hamas' official response included agreeing on a formula of "inventory, collection and stockpiling of weapons" rather than removing them. In the same context, according to Hebrew reports, Washington has handed Israel a document demanding that gradual reconstruction proceed even without disarmament, expecting the Palestinians to begin moving to the "yellow zone" (which constitutes 70% of Gaza's area and where the army is currently deployed) within 3 to 6 months, in conjunction with the preparation of a new Palestinian police force in Egypt to take over internal security.
Military division on the border of Jordan
The Israeli website "Walla" reported that the Israeli army changed its strategic defensive approach and decided to deploy an additional full military division along the border with Jordan, in anticipation and fear of a repetition of a large-scale armed attack similar to the attack of October 7, 2023.
These military measures coincide with Israel's move towards crucial legislative elections next October, amid crises and sharp divisions within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, where the upcoming elections represent a fateful test for the survival of his right-wing camp and the preservation of a majority of 61 seats in the Knesset.
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