This Was Israel’s Excuse to Restart the War — And It Backfired

Right, so Israel’s run out of excuses again — so they’ve started digging up new ones. The bombing as we know never stopped, it just got relabelled “ceasefire,” and now the latest moral cover story is that Hamas sent them the wrong remains of Israeli hostages and they must have done it on purpose. That’s the hook — the pretext to switch the war machine back on. Trouble is, it’s already falling apart. Haaretz, one of Israel’s own papers says Hamas warned them the IDs were uncertain. Other outlets have said Israel is blocking forensic tools and every DNA kit that could’ve proved who was who and that they’ve banned the autopsy tools needed as well. Then CENTCOM steps in with a miracle drone clip of “Hamas looting aid” — one truck, no proof, just propaganda. The whole thing stinks of coordination: Washington and Israel both fabricate stories which get debunked, Israel of course fabricates more moral outrage despite the clear lack of morals on show in their government, and together it is becoming more and more obvious that they are both clearing the runway to start the genocide in full all over again.
Right, so Israel’s government is accusing Hamas of returning “the wrong remains.” The claim runs like this: Hamas sent back bodies said to be Israeli captives, and forensic tests proved they weren’t. The insinuation is deliberate deceit though — that Hamas is mocking Israel by handing over random corpses. It’s the kind of story designed to stir fury and re-ignite the war. But once you strip away the slogans, the whole thing collapses under its own weight. Because Israel already knew the remains were uncertain, they were told as much and they also know full well that they have banned the equipment that could have confirmed their identity, and it has used that chaos as another pretext, the latest trigger to try and end the ceasefire.
Haaretz reported that Hamas had told Israel in advance it wasn’t sure who the remains belonged to. Channel 12 confirmed that forensic tests later found they didn’t match any of the eleven Israeli captives still unaccounted for. But it has also been revealed that Israel itself has blocked all DNA-testing materials from entering Gaza. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor backed that up by listing the equipment barred under the “dual-use” pretext: autopsy tools, lab instruments, even cotton swabs for DNA analysis. In other words, Israel destroyed the forensic capacity, then blamed Hamas for the confusion it caused.
Hamas’s statement was blunt. It said its recovery teams were still digging through debris where bodies lay under collapsed towers and that they’d asked international mediators and the Red Cross to send in additional personnel and testing kits. Israel refused. Instead, its military briefed journalists that Hamas was “delaying returns” and “violating the terms.” That spin turned a logistical impossibility — created by Israeli bombardment and blockade — into moral ammunition for another offensive.
Meanwhile, the United States stepped in to lend credibility to the narrative, by adding a story of its own. The US Central Command, CENTCOM, announced that one of its drones had spotted “suspected Hamas operatives looting an aid truck” in southern Gaza. No proof, just a short, grainy clip and a caption. The video showed one vehicle, no clear insignia, and no timestamp. Yet American outlets ran it as fact. CENTCOM claimed nearly 600 aid trucks enter Gaza daily, a figure that every humanitarian agency on the ground immediately contradicted. UNRWA, OCHA, the World Food Programme — all said the real number was roughly a quarter of that, sometimes far less. The Gaza Media Office called the US claim “fabricated and baseless,” describing it as part of a systematic disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Palestinian police who escort convoys. Those police, they reminded the world, have lost more than a thousand officers while protecting aid deliveries from airstrikes and looting.
The pattern ought to be more than familiar to us now: Israel needs moral cover to break a truce and provided a reason of their own for that, illegitimate as that might be; the United States provides a story too that makes that mindset look all the more justified. It was the same choreography during every “pause” before this — Hamas accused of firing first, Israel “responding,” the bombing resumes, and Washington nods gravely about Israel’s “right to defend itself.” This time, though, the narrative has started to unravel faster than usual, because the facts are visible and the contradictions are too sharp to bury.
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, Israel has allowed only twenty-four percent of the agreed aid and commercial trucks to enter under the ceasefire deal. That figure was confirmed by independent monitoring through OCHA and WFP data. Israel still restricts fuel, electricity, and medical supplies, the very things that keep hospitals and morgues functioning. So while CENTCOM accuses Hamas of stealing one truck, Israel is openly blocking three-quarters of all humanitarian aid. It’s a siege disguised as logistics management. The blockade is not a side effect; it’s the method.
Dr Ahmed al-Fara, director of Al-Tahrir Hospital inside the Nasser Medical Complex, described what that blockade means in practice. He said that out of every seven bodies brought in, only one can be identified because decomposition and injury make recognition almost impossible. Many show burns, binding marks, or evidence of extreme trauma. Some, he said, were hollowed out — organs missing, cavities packed with cotton. Others bore circular burns consistent with heated metal rods. None of these details have been disproved; Israel simply refuses access for independent forensic teams to verify them. For the families waiting at the gates, there is no process, no paperwork, no closure — just a line of unidentifiable corpses and a state that controls even the right to know who has died.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has confirmed that it facilitated the transfer of remains between Hamas and Israel. Its role is strictly humanitarian. But the ICRC also said that Israel’s obstruction of forensic materials is crippling recovery efforts. When a warring state blocks DNA kits, autopsy tools, and refrigeration units, it’s not just breaching medical protocol; it’s destroying the chain of evidence. And that is on top of all the bombing still going on. Without that chain, no war-crimes tribunal can function. So this is how accountability dies, this is why it is essential we get journalists in there and why Israel is so resistant, frankly terrified of the prospect.
Israel insists this is about security — that DNA kits, lab instruments, and even cotton swabs are “dual use” and could be diverted for military purposes. Hamas can weaponise a cotton bud now can they? It’s a claim that doesn’t survive contact with reality. It is nonsense and yet still its accepted as fact. What’s really being secured here isn’t safety; it’s impunity. The blockade doesn’t just stop fuel. It stops proof.
Everywhere you look, the same logic applies. Hospitals ration electricity not because Hamas hoards fuel but because Israel limits entry to a few trucks a day. Bakeries close because the ovens can’t run without gas. Water stations shut down, sewage plants overflow, and disease spreads. Each failure is later cited as evidence of Hamas “mismanagement,” when it is in fact the direct result of Israeli policy. This is why Gaza’s authorities say twenty-four percent: they’re counting the gap between promises and deliveries, between what’s announced at press conferences and what actually crosses the gate.
The hypocrisy peaks when Israel lectures about dignity for its own dead. Palestinian families receiving bodies from Israeli custody have documented bound wrists, execution-style gunshots, and missing organs. Multiple media outlets have published evidence of torture marks on those bodies as well as calling for international forensic investigations. Israel blocked them. So the same government accusing Hamas of disrespecting remains is returning corpses that medical professionals describe rather charitably all things considered as mutilated.
At home, Israel’s far right has taken that logic further. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has renewed his push for a death-penalty law targeting Palestinians convicted in military courts — courts already notorious for secret evidence and coerced confessions. He appeared on video yet again in a prison, he seems to be making a habit of this of late, next to bound prisoners demanding that “terrorists must be executed.” Hamas condemned it as state-endorsed revenge, not justice. But Ben Gvir’s rhetoric fits the pattern: each step that dehumanises Palestinians becomes the moral groundwork for the next atrocity and he’s threatening to pull the plug on Netanyahu’s coalition if he doesn’t get his wish.
Meanwhile, Washington maintains the pose of mediator while enabling every breach. It knows Israel is striking targets during the supposed ceasefire — OCHA has logged shelling and drone fire almost daily — but it refuses to call those violations. Instead, US officials echo the line that Hamas is “undermining progress.” The CENTCOM video was just the latest attempt to reset the narrative, to make the occupier look besieged and the besieged look criminal. Yet the numbers betray the script. One unverified truck versus three hundred trucks a day denied entry at all. One alleged looting against thousands of verified airstrikes. The scale itself exposes the lie.
What this reveals is how information warfare has replaced diplomacy. The ceasefire is not meant to hold; it’s meant to perform stability while Israel rearranges the battlefield, it’s yellow line is proof of that happening. Each breach becomes another test of international tolerance. When outrage fades, they push further. When headlines turn, they hit again. The “wrong remains” story was supposed to be the moral shock that justified resuming strikes. Instead, it backfired because the documentation trail all points one way: Israel engineered the confusion it’s now using as an excuse.
Forensic science is supposed to be neutral. DNA doesn’t care about politics. But when the state controls the swabs and microscopes, truth itself becomes contraband. The blockade of forensic materials isn’t just a technical issue; it’s a form of censorship. It stops Gaza’s doctors from proving what was done to their patients. It stops international investigators from building cases. It turns the rubble into silence. That’s why this matters more than the propaganda cycle — because without evidence, there can be no accountability, and without accountability, every ceasefire is just an interval between crimes.
Even Israel’s domestic press has started to sense the danger. Haaretz has published editorials warning that Netanyahu’s government is losing credibility abroad, one of the few Israeli outlets that at times holds him to account, or tries to. The longer it insists on stories that collapse under scrutiny, the more isolated it becomes, especially as they get exposed. Each exposed falsehood weakens the diplomatic shield that has kept the war going. When a state’s self-defence narrative depends on blocking DNA kits and staging drone videos, it has already lost the moral war.
For Palestinians, though, the cost is all too real. It’s the daily grind of hunger, disease, and grief under blockade. It’s the mother waiting at a hospital door, holding a photograph because the body inside has no face left to match it. It’s the medic trying to keep a generator running long enough to take one last sample before the fuel runs out. These are not metaphors. They are the physical consequences of this policy — decisions taken, signatures inked, shipments stopped.
So when Israel tells the world Hamas has “broken the ceasefire,” remember the paperwork. Remember the lists of banned items, the aid trucks turned back, the bodies sent to Gaza stripped of organs and names. The evidence isn’t hidden; it’s just treated as irrelevant. But it’s all there, in the manifests, the reports, the numbers that don’t lie. Twenty-four percent of aid allowed in. Eleven bodies still missing. One lie too many.
They can shout about “wrong remains” and “aid theft” all they like. The record shows who’s withholding the test kits, who’s starving the hospitals, who’s afraid of the truth those tests would prove. The blockade of evidence is the blockade of Gaza itself. And that’s the part they can’t spin away. Because sooner or later, every lie meets a fact it can’t bury. This one just did.
Israel really doesn’t like it when the truth comes out, its why they have such a problem with individuals such as Francesca Albanese of course, even now resorting to calling her a witch. Well she had a response for that and Israel liked it even less, so get all the details of that story in this video recommendation here as your suggested next watch.
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