Meanwhile, the Israeli military made up for the blockade in Northern Gaza, including the city of Gaza, which has been maintained for most of the war. It warned residents not to use the main highway to enter or leave the north, and said it could only pass south on coastal roads.
It also announced additional ground operations in Gaza near the already destroyed town of Beit Lahiya, where dozens of people were killed in the last 24 hours.
Thousands of Palestinians returned to their homes in the north after the ceasefire in January. Israel resumed its fierce attack on Gaza on Tuesday, breaking a truce that promoted the release of more than two dozen hostages. Israel blames Hamas for the re-fighting battle as radical groups reject a new proposal that departs from the agreement they signed.
The Trump administration has been praised for helping promote a ceasefire and he has expressed his full support for Israel. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than 400 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday alone, mostly women and children.
Three rockets were fired from Gaza on Thursday, one of which intercepted and two dropped in an open area, the military said. Hamas claimed the attack and said it was targeted at Tel Aviv. Earlier, the military said it intercepted missiles launched by Yemen-backed Iran-backed Houthi rebels until it reached Israeli space, as air strikes sirens and explosive interceptors were heard in Jerusalem. No injuries. This is the second attack since the United States began a new attack on the rebels earlier this week. Earlier on Thursday, a strike in Gaza attacked the Abu Daqa family’s home in Abasan al-Kabira, a village just outside Khan Younis, near the border with Israel. It ordered the evacuation of areas of Israeli military earlier this week, including much of eastern Gaza.
According to nearby European hospitals, the strike killed at least 16 people, mainly women and children. Those killed included a father and his seven children, as well as parents and brothers of a one-month-old baby who survived with their grandparents.
“Another tough night,” said Hani Awad, who is helping rescuers find more survivors in the rubble. “The house fell on the heads of the people.”
The Israeli military said it had attacked dozens of radical targets in Gaza, hitting dozens of fighters and military structures.
Israeli ground forces advanced on Wednesday, and Israeli ground forces advanced for the first time in the ground in Gaza since the ceasefire began in January, seizing a part of a corridor that opened a northern third of the territory to the southern part of the territory. Regarding the notification to the south, the message indicated that the troops would soon regain control of the so-called Netzarim corridor, extending from the border to the Mediterranean.
Israel also cut off supplies of food, fuel and humanitarian aid to Gaza for about 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, and he vowed to strengthen its operations until Hamas freed the 59 hostages it held – 35 of them believed to be dead – and renounced control of the region. The Trump administration has been praised for promoting a ceasefire, and he said it fully supports Israel.
Hamas said it would only release the remaining hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and the evacuation of Israel from Gaza, as they demanded in a ceasefire agreement reached in January after more than a year of mediation in the United States, Egypt and Qatar.
Hamas, who does not accept Israel’s existence, said it is willing to hand over power to the Western-backed Palestinian Authority or the Political Independence Commission, but it will not lay down its weapons until Israel ends decades of occupation of land Palestinians hope to acquire future states.
A “bloody night” in the Gaza Health Ministry, a hard-hit northern town, said an overnight strike killed at least 85 people, most of whom were women and children. Zaher al-Waheidi, an official in charge of the ministry’s records, said a total of 592 people were killed during the Israeli strike since Tuesday.
Indonesian hospital said it had received 19 bodies after Beit Lahiya, near the border.
“It was a bloody night,” said Fares Awad, head of the Ministry of Health Emergency Services Department in northern Gaza. “The situation was disastrous.”
Beit Lahiya was severely destroyed and greatly reduced in the first phase of the war before the ceasefire in January. According to health officials, an Israeli strike on Wednesday attacked a group of mourners.
The 17-month war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. Most of the hostages have been released in a ceasefire agreement or other transactions. Israeli troops rescued eight live hostages and recovered dozens of bodies.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, Israel’s retaliatory offense is the deadliest and most destructive offensive in recent history. It does not mean how many militants are, but rather that more than half of the people are women and children. Israel said it has killed about 20,000 militants and provided no evidence.
The war at its peak was displaced, accounting for about 90% of Gaza’s population and caused great damage throughout the territory. During the ceasefire, thousands returned to their homes, but many found only rubble and bombed building shells.
