Netanyahu orders “powerful strikes” on Gaza threatening fragile ceasefire

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to prepare “powerful strikes” in Gaza on Tuesday, while Hamas announced it would delay returning a hostage’s body, pushing a U.S.-brokered ceasefire that began on October 10 to the brink of collapse and threatening a return to all-out war.

The order came after Israel declared that Hamas had committed a “clear violation” of the ceasefire by failing to promptly return all…