Israeli bombs rained down once again across Gaza on Tuesday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his military to “immediately carry out powerful strikes,” in the most serious challenge to the current ceasefire agreement to date.

The bombing killed at least 20 people, according to Gaza officials. It came just four days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio toured a new U.S. military base in Israel, a rare deployment of U.S. forces meant to signal that President Donald Trump was serious about maintaining the end to the bombardment of Gaza.

“There is no plan B,” Rubio said on the tour, rebuffing an Israeli reporter’s question of whether Israel needed Trump’s permission before resuming its attacks on Gaza. “This is the best plan, it’s the only plan, it’s one that we thin

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