Board of Peace demands Israel comply with Gaza ceasefire, calls for end to kite attacks

Israeli officials warned the BoP on Sunday that Israel would escalate its activity in the Gaza Strip if the launches were not halted within 72 hours, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post.

The Board of Peace (BoP) has conveyed a message to Hamas in recent days through Egyptian, Qatari, and Turkish mediators, demanding that the terrorist organization halt the launching of kites and all other activity directed at Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The message was delivered through a recently established monitoring mechanism led by the United States and BoP Director-General Nickolay Mladenov.

“There will be serious consequences for continued violations,” the message warned.

“All militant activity in the Gaza Strip must stop, including the flying of kites. We have conveyed this message directly through the established mechanism,” a BoP official told the Post.

The official stressed that Israel must also comply with the ceasefire agreement, adding that “military action cannot extend beyond responding to genuine and imminent threats.”

The BoP is seeking to calm the situation in Gaza and create the conditions necessary to implement the agreements and begin the process of disarming Hamas.

“We want to get onto a path of ending mutual violations so that we can begin collecting Hamas’s weapons,” the official said. “The sooner we reach that stage, the sooner we can move into the phase in which Hamas is disarmed.”

IDF accelerates efforts to kill October 7 terrorists

Israel has accelerated its efforts in recent weeks to kill terrorists who participated in the October 7 massacre and held hostages.

On Monday, Israel carried out several strikes across the Gaza Strip, targeting five weapons storage facilities and a Hamas launch site.

“The warehouses that were targeted contained rockets, weapons, explosive devices, grenades and additional military equipment,” the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said in a joint statement. “The targeted warehouses were established inside mosques and adjacent to humanitarian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.”

The strikes came after several kites were launched from Gaza into Israel in recent days at the direction of Hamas, reviving memories of the incendiary and explosive kites and balloons the terrorist organization launched toward Israel during the previous decade.

BoP warned of increased IDF attacks if kites persist

Israeli officials warned the BoP on Sunday that Israel would escalate its activity in the Gaza Strip if the launches were not halted within 72 hours, an Israeli official told the Post.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz also warned in a joint statement that if the launches toward Israel were not stopped immediately, “the IDF will act to intensify targeted operations against those responsible for the launches and will evacuate civilians from areas from which kites, drones and balloons are launched.”