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One day after<\/span> leaders of European and Arab nations, along with President Donald Trump, declared an end to the war in Gaza at an Egyptian peace summit, the Israeli government broke with terms of the ceasefire deal on Tuesday, killing at least seven Palestinians, many of whom were returning to their homes after months of displacement, and announcing it would restrict the amount of humanitarian aid into Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n The agreement stipulated that Israel would halt all of its military operations and that the flow of aid would return to levels seen under the previous ceasefire, during which at least 600 aid trucks entered the territory each day. Despite this, Israel\u2019s military carried out two strikes and COGAT, the military unit that\u00a0controls shipments of aid into Gaza, told aid groups that it would limit deliveries to half the amount \u2014 300 trucks daily \u2014 agreed upon in the deal. The Israeli government also said it would not reopen the Rafah crossing along the border of Egypt, a key avenue for the delivery of aid.<\/p>\n Israel carried out the attacks and restricted aid as it accused\u00a0Hamas of failing to hand over the bodies of the remaining Israeli prisoners in a timely manner as promised in the ceasefire agreement. Within the 72 hours allotted in the deal, Hamas returned the 20 living Israeli prisoners, in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, many of whom<\/a> were detained in Gaza<\/a> during the war without charges<\/a>. For the retrieval of the remains of the deceased detainees in Gaza, all sides, including Israel, had acknowledged it would take more time since many of the bodies are buried beneath rubble <\/a>of buildings destroyed by Israel\u2019s bombardment<\/a>. According to Palestinian and United Nations estimates, 10,000 bodies<\/a> remain buried beneath the 50 million tons<\/a> of rubble from buildings leveled by Israel\u2019s attacks. Some of the bodies are also believed to be within the nearly 60 percent of Gaza that remains under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The implementation of the ceasefire, signed by both Israel and Hamas, spelled out such terms to deal with the logistical obstacles. The plan<\/a>, published by Israeli media, called on Hamas and Israel to share information about the whereabouts of \u201cany remaining deceased hostages that were not retrieved within the 72 hours.\u201d The information would be shared through mediating countries and the International Committee of the Red Cross. \u201cThe mechanism shall ensure that the remains of all the hostages are fully and safely exhumed and released,\u201d the plan said. \u201cHamas shall exert maximum effort to ensure the fulfillment of these commitments as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n The Red Cross, which is facilitating the transfer of remains, said the search for the bodies may take days or weeks.<\/p>\n Hamas has returned the bodies of eight individuals, according to the Red Cross and the Israeli government, while the search for 20 others continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n While the ceasefire plan included exceptions for the return of bodies, no such exemptions existed for the resumption of delivering humanitarian aid.\u00a0<\/p>\n Both the Red Cross and the United Nations blasted Israel\u2019s decision to again limit aid into the territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n While Palestinian American writer and foreign policy expert Tariq Kenny-Shawa expected Israel to violate the new ceasefire deal \u2014 as Israel repeatedly<\/a> did during the first few months of a previous ceasefire <\/a>before shattering it completely by killing more than 400 Palestinians<\/a> in a single day<\/a> \u2014 he didn\u2019t expect it to happen so shortly after Trump\u2019s tour of the region, which included a speech before Israel\u2019s parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIsrael knew that those technicalities existed,\u201d Kenny-Shawa said, referring to the difficulty of locating the Israeli bodies amid the rubble. \u201cAnd what they\u2019re doing now is that they\u2019re exploiting it in order to continue to genocide, albeit at a slightly reduced rate of killing.\u201d<\/p>\n Experts worried the ceasefire deal was vague, allowing Israel leeway to resume attacks whenever it sees fit. They had pointed to Israel\u2019s routine violations<\/a> of its ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah in Lebanon, in which the Israeli military\u2019s ongoing strikes have killed dozens of civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n