JAKARTA - Hamas has denied responsibility for the attack on Israeli forces in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which prompted Israel to launch an attack on Gaza.

The Palestinian militant group also said it remains committed to the US-brokered ceasefire deal in Gaza.

Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli media reported a shootout between Israeli troops and Hamas fighters in Rafah.

Earlier the Israeli military claimed to comply with a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, after airstrikes in Gaza killed 104 people.

Israel, which launched airstrikes in Gaza on Tuesday night, said it was stepping up the attack in retaliation for Palestinian militant actions killing a soldier.

Reported by Reuters on Wednesday, October 29, the Israeli military said they would continue to enforce the ceasefire agreement and would respond firmly to "every violation".

Gaza health authorities said Israeli attacks killed 104 people, including five people at home who were hit by an attack on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, four people in buildings in the Sabra neighborhood, Gaza City, and five people in a car in Khan Younis.

An Israeli military official said Hamas had violated the ceasefire by carrying out attacks on Israeli troops stationed within the so-called "yellow lines", a line of placement agreed upon in the ceasefire.

The agreement came into force on October 10, halting a two-year war sparked by a deadly Hamas-led attack against Israel on October 7, 2023.


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