Hamas rejected US allegations that its attacks against the people of Gaza constituted "an imminent ceasefire violation" in a statement on Sunday.
"These baseless claims fully align with Israel’s misleading propaganda and provide cover for the occupation’s continued crimes and organized aggression against our people," Hamas stated.
The US State Department said on Saturday it had informed the nations guaranteeing the Gaza ceasefire agreement of "credible reports" indicating "an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas against the people of Gaza.
"This planned attack against Palestinian civilians would constitute a direct and grave violation of the ceasefire agreement," the department said in a statement.
According to Hamas, "it is the occupation authorities who have formed, armed, and funded criminal gangs that carried out acts of murder, kidnapping, theft of aid trucks, and assaults against Palestinian civilians."
"The movement calls on the US administration to stop repeating the occupation’s misleading narrative and to focus instead on restraining its repeated violations of the ceasefire agreement, foremost among them supporting these gangs and providing them safe havens in areas under its control," Hamas wrote.
Hamas reasserts itself in Gaza
The terror group has sought to reassert itself in Gaza. Since the ceasefire took hold, Hamas has killed at least 32 people in a wave of killings meant to target anti-Hamas clans that had surged in the Strip.
US President Donald Trump responded to the killings in a Truth Social post, saying that "if Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them."
Trump also told CNN that he would consider allowing Israeli forces to resume fighting in Gaza if Hamas fails to uphold its end of the ceasefire deal.
This is a developing story.