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Five days passed without incident following the Sharm El-Sheikh summit on Oct. 13. But on the sixth day, Sunday, Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire and responded harshly by launching scores of strikes, causing massive casualties. Hamas denied responsibility for the violation, but verifying the facts is difficult as the independent ceasefire observers envisioned in the plan do not appear to have started their task yet.
There have been expectations from Day 1 that Israel would stop implementing the deal once it got its hostages back. That speculation was based on many Israeli officials openly calling for continuing the war. However, the fact that the US has guaranteed this deal and President Donald Trump has personally staked his reputation on its success may make it difficult for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go along with his extremist partners.
The Oct. 13 summit was the brainchild of Trump. Thirty countries attended the summit, including some of the largest and most important Arab, Muslim and European countries, such as Indonesia and Pakistan, as well as Jordan, Iraq and all six Gulf Cooperation Council countries. India and Japan attended from Asia and, from Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain and the UK. Four countries — Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and the US — were the guarantors.
