JD Vance To Visit Israel To Push Phase Two Of Gaza Peace Plan | Eastern NC Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Tim Pearce.

    Vice President JD Vance is expected to visit the Middle East on Tuesday to push the second phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas as it teeters on renewed violence from the terror group.

    Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire on Sunday after militants appeared out of a tunnel in Israeli-controlled territory in Gaza and killed two Israeli soldiers in an anti-tank rocket attack. In response, the Israeli military launched around 20 airstrikes across Gaza, according to Axios.

    Hamas did not deny the attack, though it said that it was carried out by a faction or militants that were not acting on orders from Hamas leadership.

    "We are not aware of any incidents or clashes taking place in the Rafah area, because these are zones under Israeli control, and contact has been severed with our groups that remained there," Hamas said in a statement, according to Axios.

    In addition to the attack, Hamas continues to be in violation of phase one of the ceasefire deal by failing to return all the bodies of the deceased hostages. About half of the deceased remain in Gaza, and the terror group has said it needs more time to locate them.

    The United States and Israel have made separate accusations against the terror group in recent days of violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement that saw Israel withdraw from roughly half of Gaza and release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

    The U.S. State Department on Saturday said in a statement that the "United States has informed the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace agreement of credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas against the people of Gaza."

    The State Department's statement is "likely related to Hamas' crackdown on the Palestinian population since the ceasefire went into effect," according to Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior research analyst Joe Truzman.

    Since the ceasefire officially began last week, videos have surfaced on social media of Hamas militants publicly executing or brutally beating Gazans. In one video, militants drop large rocks on a man's legs before beating him with a pipe.


    Trump has repeatedly said that Hamas will disarm, or they will be disarmed. He repeated that promise in an interview with Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that aired on Sunday.

    "They promised they would [disarm]. They said they would. It's [written] down that they would," said Trump. "If we have to, we'll disarm them."

    He clarified that the United States would not send soldiers into Gaza and that a proxy could fight Hamas: "Could be Israel with our backing. We won't have boots on the ground. There's no reason to."

    The actions of Hamas militants inside and outside its zone of control in the Gaza Strip have strained the already tenuous ceasefire in place between the terror group and Israel. Vance is expected to visit Israel with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff to provide more direct oversight of the terms of the peace agreement.

    One major point of tension in the peace process is the requirement that Hamas be disarmed.

    "There is no security infrastructure currently that would ensure Hamas is disarmed," Vance said on Sunday evening.

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