Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a strike as Hamas refused Israel’s request to release half of the remaining hostages as a prerequisite for extending the ceasefire. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel’s deadliest bombing killed women and children in the 17-month war.
Netanyahu said the attack was “only beginning” and that Israel would move forward before achieving all its war goals – destroying Hamas and freeing all hostages held by militant groups.
Hamas said at least six senior officials were killed during Tuesday’s strike. Israel said that it includes Hamas’ head of civil affairs, Justice Department officials and heads of two security agencies.
He said in a statement aired by state television that all further ceasefire negotiations will be held “under the fire.” The White House said it had consulted and expressed support for Israel’s actions.
Israeli troops ordered people to evacuate eastern Gaza to the center of the territory, indicating that Israel may soon begin new ground operations. As aid groups warn that new activities are exhausted two weeks after Israel cuts all food, medicines, fuel and other goods to Gaza.
While the family is sleeping or preparing for “Sohour,” pre-dawn dawn barrage hits the houses and shelters and sets up a tent camp where Muslims start quickly every day in the holy month of Ramadan. In Gaza City, Omar Greygaa said he ran out after the strike to help survivors of a nearby shocked building.
“In every room, I found the dead. “I don’t know if we are in a state of war or a state of truce.” ”
The attack could indicate that the full recovery of a war has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and caused widespread damage in Gaza. This also raised concerns about the fate of about twenty-two-two-odd hostages held by Hamas, who are believed to be still alive.
A senior Hamas official said Netanyahu’s decision to return to the war belongs to the “death penalty” for the rest of the hostages. Izzat al-Risheq accused Netanyahu of launching a strike to save his far-right management coalition.
After several hours of bombing, there were no reports of attacks on Hamas.
However, for the first time since the ceasefire began, Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired rockets to Israel. The military said radio triggered a sirens in the Negev desert in southern Israel but was intercepted before reaching the country’s territory. Over the weekend, the United States launched a fatal strike against Iran-backed Husse.
As Netanyahu faces increasing domestic pressure, Israel’s return to the military campaign is to get his handling of the hostage crisis and his decision to fire the head of Israel’s internal security agencies. His latest testimony in a long-running corruption trial was cancelled after the strike.
The strike seemed to have brought political improvements to Netanyahu. A far-right party led by Itamar Ben-Gvir waved the government on Tuesday a ceasefire that was rejoining.
The main group representing hostage families accused the government of “intentional demolition” of the ceasefire. Thousands of Israelis packed in Tel Aviv Square on Tuesday night to protest Netanyahu’s intention to fire the country’s domestic security chief and demanded that the government resume negotiations on a hostage agreement.
“Netanyahu didn’t open the door to hell on Hamas, he opened the door for those we love.”
After two months of relative calm during the ceasefire, the injured stream entered the Gaza hospital, and the shocked Palestinians found themselves digging their loved ones from the rubble again and held funeral prayers to the deceased at Hospital Morgues.
“No one wants to fight,” said Gaza resident Nidal Alzaanin. “Everyone is still suffering from the previous months.”
According to European hospitals, 17 members of a family were killed in a house in Rafah. The deceased included five children, their parents, another father and his three children. Another person in Gaza City killed 27 family members, half of whom were a 1-year-old woman and child, according to the list of dead people presented by Palestinian physicians.
By noon Tuesday, Nasser Hospital had received the bodies of at least 28 children who died in the recent violence, according to records shared by Ahmed Al-Farra, head of pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology.
At Khan’s Nasser Hospital, the patient was lying on the floor, screaming. A young girl with bloody arms cried. The injured child was overwhelmed.
She said she helped treat internal bleeding in a 6-year-old girl. As they pulled her curly hair apart, they realized that shrapnel also penetrated the left side of her brain, paralyzing her to the right. She was taken into a situation without an ID card, “We don’t know if her family survived.”
The Gaza Ministry of Health said the strikes killed at least 404 people and injured more than 560 people. At least 263 people killed were women or children under the age of 18. He described it as the deadliest day since the war began.
Netanyahu accused Hamas of guilty of civilian casualties in a statement Tuesday, saying it operates in the population.
According to local health officials, the war killed more than 48,500 Palestinians and displaced 90% of Gaza’s population. The Ministry of Health did not distinguish between civilians and militants, but said more than half of the dead were women and children.
When militants led by Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, the war broke out, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and hijacking 251 hostages. Most have been released in a ceasefire or other deal, with Israeli forces rescuing only eight bodies.
The United States supports Israel and accuses Hamas of blame for the White House for the re-fight. National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said militant groups “would have released hostages to expand the ceasefire, but chose to reject and war.”
However, the ceasefire deal of the U.S. to help brokers does not require Hamas to release more hostages to extend the pause of the battle to its first phase.
Israeli officials discuss the actions that took place without anonymity, and Israel is shocking Hamas’ army, leaders and infrastructure and plans to expand the actions beyond the air strikes.
Officials accused Hamas of trying to rebuild and plan a new attack. Hamas militants and security forces quickly returned to the streets in recent weeks after the ceasefire came into effect. Hamas denied planning a new attack on Tuesday.
Israel attempted to change the ceasefire agreement based on a ceasefire that began in mid-January, Hamas released 25 hostages, and eight bodies were exchanged for more than 1,700 Palestinian prisoners agreed in the first phase.
But Israel was shocked by the negotiations in the second phase. Under the agreement, the purpose of the second phase is to release the remaining 24 living hostages, the war ends and the evacuation of Israel entirely from Gaza. Israel said Hamas also possesses the remains of 35 prisoners.
Instead, Israel demanded that Hamas release half of the remaining hostages in exchange for a delay in the ceasefire and had a vague promise to eventually negotiate a lasting truce. Hamas refused, asking the parties to follow the initial deal, which required the fight to stop in the second phase of negotiations.
Israel said that this would not end the war until Hamas’s management and military capabilities are destroyed and all hostages are released, and the two goals may be incompatible.
The full recovery of the war will allow Netanyahu to avoid the difficult trade-offs demanded in the second phase and the thorny question of who will rule Gaza.
It will also cover up his alliance, which depends on far-right MPs who want to reduce Gaza and rebuild Jewish settlements there.
