In a post published by Al-Qassam on its Telegram channel, it said that the bodies of the two prisoners were found during search operations that took place earlier today.
In this context, US Vice President J.D. Vance said that the ceasefire in Gaza is holding despite Israel targeting the Strip with intensive airstrikes in recent hours in response to an alleged attack on Israeli soldiers in the Strip.
Reuters quoted Vance as saying, "Hamas or some other entity inside Gaza attacked an Israeli soldier. We expect the Israelis to respond, but I believe the peace declared by the president will still hold."
A US official told Axios that Washington urged Israel not to take radical actions that could lead to the collapse of the ceasefire agreement.
Israeli airstrikes and violation of the agreement
Palestinian sources reported that two Palestinians were killed in raids on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, after Israel announced a new offensive on the Strip due to allegations that the resistance had carried out an attack on occupation soldiers.
Sources in Gaza hospitals said that 18 Palestinians were killed and at least 50 others were injured in Israeli raids on the cities of Gaza and Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, including 9 who were killed and 15 others who were injured in raids on the cities of Gaza and Khan Younis.
Medical sources reported that an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, killed five Palestinians. Ten Palestinians were also injured in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the Al-Amal neighborhood, northwest of Khan Younis, according to a statement from Al-Amal Hospital.
The death toll has risen to 4 martyrs and 9 wounded in an Israeli bombing of a house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, in addition to people missing under the rubble, according to a statement from the Civil Defense Authority in Gaza.
The Civil Defense had reported, in a statement earlier, that two Palestinians were killed and four others, including a child and an infant, were injured as a result of the targeting of the house, before the number of victims rose.
An Israeli drone fired missiles at the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital and its back courtyard west of Gaza City, while an airstrike targeted the Al-Shati refugee camp west of the city. In the central Gaza Strip, the Israeli army shelled areas east of Deir al-Balah.
All the areas targeted by the Israeli bombing are located west of the "yellow line," where no Israeli forces are present. This line is the first withdrawal line stipulated in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which began on October 10.
The “yellow line” separates the areas where the Israeli army is still present on its eastern side from those where Palestinians are allowed to move within it on its western side.
Earlier today, the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation claimed that unidentified militants fired anti-tank missiles and sniper fire at Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Meanwhile, the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported heavy exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and Hamas militants in the al-Junayna neighborhood east of Rafah in recent hours.
Later, according to a statement issued by his office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the army to launch "immediate, strong attacks on the Gaza Strip."
Hamas, in a statement, denied any involvement in the Rafah shooting, affirming its commitment to the ceasefire agreement. It asserted that the Israeli shelling was
