The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported late Sunday that the Israeli government has decided to isolate the latest Gaza ceasefire agreement from other political and security issues under discussion with the US administration, in an effort to preserve stable coordination channels with Washington after weeks of rising tension.
According to the report, Israel seeks to close all tunnels in Gaza under its direct supervision, including those lying outside its current areas of control. The file, the report added, represents a top security priority for the Israeli government in the coming phase.
The US administration has reportedly proposed launching a pilot project to address the tunnels in the Rafah area, to be carried out under joint technical supervision between Washington and Tel Aviv.
Israel has accepted this proposal as an initial step toward evaluating mechanisms for dealing with Gaza’s vast underground network.
A Fragile Calm in Gaza
A tense and fragile calm prevails across the Gaza Strip following a series of deadly Israeli air raids that struck wide areas, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians — most of them women and children.
The raids came shortly after Israeli occupation forces violated the ceasefire agreement, which had only recently gone into effect.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump had threatened to “eliminate” Hamas if it failed to abide by the ceasefire with Israel, warning that he might order a new military offensive in the region.
“If we have to do it, they will be destroyed — and they know that,” Trump said Monday, warning that if violence in Gaza continued, “we will step in and handle the situation very quickly and very violently,” according to his statements.
Trump further claimed that US troops would not participate in renewed fighting, asserting that other forces were ready to act if he deemed Hamas to have violated the truce.
He also told reporters at the White House:
“Some countries contacted me after seeing certain killings involving Hamas and said they wanted to intervene and handle the situation themselves.”
“We’ll give the situation a little chance,” he added, “and we hope to see a decline in violence.”
Ongoing Israeli Airstrikes
Despite talk of calm, Israeli warplanes launched dozens of attacks across the Strip on Sunday — including more than 20 strikes on the eastern areas of Khan Younis, as well as on al-Zawaida and al-Nuseirat in the central governorate.
Hours later, the occupation army announced the reinstatement of the ceasefire, highlighting the cyclical pattern of aggression and retraction that has characterised Israel’s conduct in Gaza for years.
At the same time, a delegation from Hamas’s leadership arrived in Cairo to follow up on the implementation of the ceasefire agreement with Egyptian mediators and Palestinian factions, amid fears that Israel’s continued escalation could derail the fragile truce altogether.
Editorial Analysis — The “Tunnel File”: Pretext for Perpetual Control
While Israeli officials present the tunnel issue as a “security concern,” it has long served as a pretext for deeper military control over Gaza’s borders and infrastructure.
The joint US–Israeli supervision plan signals not peacekeeping, but the extension of occupation oversight under a new label — one that could turn Gaza’s reconstruction phase into a surveillance and containment project rather than genuine liberation.
For Palestinians, these tunnels were lifelines under siege, built to bypass starvation and isolation imposed by years of blockade.
Turning their dismantlement into an “international experiment” reflects not humanitarian intent but the persistence of colonial logic — one that seeks to manage Gaza, not free it.
