Israel notified the US of its new attack on Gaza before the attack, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has said. Israel advised the United States before initiating huge aerial assaults on the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated on Monday evening that the Israeli administration had notified the US administration of the upcoming attack. The bombing wave, which left at least 404 dead, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, has broken the US-brokered, Qatar and Egypt-brokered ceasefire between Hamas and Israel that was put in place in January.
“The Israelis consulted with the Trump administration and the White House on their Gaza attacks tonight,” Leavitt said to Fox News. As President Trump has made it very clear, Hamas, the Houthis, Iran – all of those who want to terrorise not only Israel but the United States of America as well – are going to find a price: all hell will break loose,” she declared.
Hamas considered the Israeli strikes as a unilateral withdrawal of the ceasefire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that he authorized the strikes due to a failure to make progress in negotiations to extend the ceasefire.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported last month that Israel had told the US it was not bound by the ceasefire. As reported by the paper, Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer explained to Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff: “Israel is not bound to the three-stage plan … even if it signed it.” Netanyahu’s plan, as outlined by Dermer to Witkoff, is the following: release all the remaining hostages in one large, single stage. Hamas will get prisoners in exchange,” Haaretz reported.
