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.

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…

Israel killed at least 28 Palestinians after accusing Hamas of targeting soldiers, which the group denied, saying Israel has repeatedly violated the week-old deal.