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Hamas hands over body of captive as Israel continues Gaza demolitions
(AL-JAZEERA) Hamas has turned over another body of a deceased Israeli captive to Israel, as it continues to search for those that remain.
Constant Israeli artillery shelling witnessed in southern Gaza while farms and houses being destroyed in eastern parts of Gaza City, report our colleagues on the ground.
A ceasefire was agreed to end the war, but that has not stopped Israel from attacking. On Sunday, an air attack killed four people. A few days before that, last Friday, another Israeli strike killed a man on a motorbike. And on October 17 Israeli warplanes killed at least one person.
Heavy machinery from Egypt continues to search for the bodies of Israeli captives along Baghdad Street in the Shujayea neighborhood under the supervision of ICRC and Qassam Brigades teams during the ceasefire between the Israeli army and Hamas in Gaza on November 3, 2025 [Khames Alrefi/Anadolu]
Instead, the attacks mentioned were conducted by Israel in Lebanon, and come a year after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah began. Yet, despite that ceasefire, Israel has continued to attack sites across Lebanon periodically, much to the anger of the Lebanese people and government.
Instead the attacks mentioned were conducted by Israel in Lebanon, and come a year after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah began. Yet, despite that ceasefire, Israel has continued to attack sites across Lebanon periodically, much to the anger of the Lebanese people and government.
Israel argues that it has the right to conduct attacks in Lebanon it believes are necessary until Hezbollah fully disarms, even if a ceasefire is officially in place.
And analysts say the attacks in Gaza since the latest ceasefire, which have so far killed at least 236 Palestinians and wounded another 600, are evidence that Israel is implementing a policy of “Lebanonising” Gaza – officially ending the war, but using its far superior military strength to give it the right to conduct attacks whenever it wants for an indefinite period.
“They [Israelis] don’t want to resolve the conflict,” Rob Geist Pinfold, a scholar of international security at King’s College London, told Al Jazeera. “War is the new norm.”
Post-October 7 attacks reality
Before Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, groups like Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon were believed to have a degree of deterrence against Israeli aggression.
“Before October 7 [2023], there was the belief that Israel cannot have a long or prolonged war,” Pinfold said. “Its economy and society meant it was a country that wouldn’t be able to function.”
However, since the October 7 attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian groups, which killed 1,139 people in Israel and took more than 200 captive, Israel has embarked on a forever war, attacking various targets around the Middle East even after coming to ceasefire agreements.
The most obvious example has been Lebanon, where despite a ceasefire agreement implemented on November 27, 2024, Israel repeatedly violated the agreement by continuing its attacks.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that the Israeli military could press ahead with further action if the Lebanese government did not do more to disarm Hezbollah, which was severely weakened in the war with Israel, most notably losing its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah.
“We will not allow Lebanon to become a renewed front against us, and we will act as necessary,” he said, according to a statement issued by Netanyahu’s office.
The threats have led to a sense of trepidation among many in Lebanon, who fear a return to the widespread attacks across the country prior to the first anniversary of the ceasefire. However, for many in the country, particularly those in the south, where air raids and other attacks have been persistent over the last year, the ceasefire has never been implemented properly.
“This war is always here,” Abbas Fakih, a Lebanese journalist from the southern city of Nabatieh, told Al Jazeera.
“If you are from a border village, you cannot visit [it] because you will be targeted. Anyone can be targeted at any time.”
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