Vance signals U.S. officials may visit Israel amid fragile Gaza ceasefire

Vice President J.D. Vance says an administration official will likely travel to Israel soon.

(CNN)- Vice President J.D. Vance says an administration official will likely travel to Israel soon, following renewed violence between Hamas and Israeli forces in Gaza.

“We want to go and check on how things are going,” Vance said, adding that while the ceasefire remains in effect, tensions are far from resolved.

According to Col. Cedric Leighton (Ret., U.S. Air Force), “This ceasefire is basically a bit tenuous.” Two Israeli soldiers were killed in the latest clashes, and Gaza hospitals report more than 40 deaths from subsequent airstrikes.

“There are going to be fits and starts,” Vance said. “Hamas is going to fire on Israel. Israel’s going to have to respond.”

Vance emphasized the need for an international peacekeeping force, saying multiple nations have expressed interest in helping stabilize the region. But Global Affairs analyst Elise Labott noted that “those countries don’t want to go in when the Israelis are still fighting in the area.”

Sources familiar with U.S. plans say a delegation may include two officials who helped broker the original ceasefire — Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.

“Hamas right now [is] doing what you would expect a terrorist organization to do, which is to try to reconstitute and take back their positions,” Kushner said. “The success or failure of this will be if Israel and this international mechanism are able to create a viable alternative.”

Meanwhile, a senior Israeli official confirmed humanitarian aid shipments into Gaza resumed Sunday after a temporary pause.

“If Israel doesn’t want to continue to punish the actual Palestinian civilians that they say are being held hostage by Hamas too, then you would not really make aid a weapon,” Labott added.