The Ministry of Health in Gaza has said that the number of deaths of an Israeli massive campaign launched throughout the Palestinian territory had increased to “at least 330”, including children, since the attacks reached dozens of objectives on early Tuesday, ending a confrontation of one week on the extension of the Alenga that stopped the fight in January.
“The Ministry of Health has registered more than 330 deaths, most of them Palestinian women and children, and hundreds of injured, dozens of them in a critical condition,” said the head of the Ministry, Mohammed Zaqut, said AFP.
Gaza Civil Defense Agency spokesman, Mahmud Basal, said AFP that the military operation was ongoing and affected schools and camps that took refuge to displaced people.
Strikes were reported in multiple places, including northern Gaza, the city of Gaza and Deir Al-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah in the central and southern strip of Gaza.
The Israeli army, who said that it affected dozens of objectives, said that the attacks would continue during the time that is necessary and would extend beyond air attacks, which increases the perspective that Israeli terrestrial troops could resume the fight.
The attacks were much broader than the regular series of drone strikes than the Israeli army has said that it has made against individuals or small groups of presumed fighters and follow weeks of failed efforts to agree on an extension of the truce agreed on January 19.
In tensioned hospitals for 15 months of bombing, you could see lots of bodies in white plastic sheets stacked stacked when victims were brought.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said his teams treated with 86 dead and 134 wounded, but others were taken to hospitals overwhelmed by private cars.
Nasser hospital officials in Khan Yunis, Al-Aqsa Hospital in the Central Strip of Gaza and the Al-Ahly hospital in Gaza City, which have been widely damaged in the war, they said they had received around 85 dead. The authorities also reported separately that 16 members of a family in Rafah, in southern Gaza, had been killed.
Hamas said that Israel had revoked Alto the Fire agreement, leaving the fate of 59 hostages that still remain in Gaza uncertain.
The Office of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused Hamas of “repeated rejection of freeing our hostages” and rejecting the proposals of the middle east of the president of the United States, Steve Witkoff.
“Israel will act, from now on, against Hamas with a growing military force,” he said in a statement.
In Washington, a White House spokesman said that Israel had consulted the United States administration before the strikes, which the military said that the medium -level Hamas commanders directed and leadership officials, as well as the infrastructure belonging to the combat group.
“Hamas could have published Haranes to extend the fire, but instead he chose the refusal and war,” said White House spokesman Brian Hughes.
In Gaza, witnesses contacted by Reuters He said the Israeli tanks of the areas bombarded in Rafah in the Southern Gaza Strip, forcing many families who had returned to their areas after the high fire began to leave their homes and go to the north to Khan Younis.
Deadlock
The negotiation teams of Israel and Hamas had been in Doha, since the mediators of Egypt and Qatar sought to close the gap between the two parts after the end of an initial phase in Alto El Fuego, which saw 33 Israeli hostages and five Thai returned by combat groups in Gaza in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
With the support of the United States, Israel had been pressing for the return of the remaining 59 hostages that still remained in Gaza in exchange for a long -term truce that would have stopped the struggles until after the month of Muslim fasting of Ramadan and the vacations of the Jewish Easter in April.
However, Hamas had insisted on moving to negotiations for a permanent purpose of the conflict and a total withdrawal of the Israeli forces of Gaza, according to the terms of the Original Fire High Agreement.
“We demand that the mediators have Netanyahu and the Zionist occupation totally responsible for violating and canceling the agreement,” said the group.
Each side has accused the other of not respecting the terms of the top agreement of January, and there were multiple problems during the course of the first phase. But so far, a complete return to the fight had been avoided.
Israel had blocked the help deliveries when entering Gaza and had threatened numerous occasions to resume the fight if Hamas did not agree to return to the hostages he still has.
The Army did not provide details about the strikes carried out in the early hours of Tuesday, but the Palestinian health authorities and witnesses contacted by Reuters Damage reported in numerous areas of Gaza, where hundreds of thousands live in improvised shelters or damaged buildings.
A building in the city of Gaza, at the northern end of the strip, was beaten and at least three houses were beaten in Deir Al-Balah in the center of Gaza. In addition, the attacks achieved objectives in the cities of the south of Khan Young and Rafah, according to doctors and witnesses.
Among the murdered was the senior official of Hamas, Mohammad al-Jmasi, a member of the political office, and members of his family, including his grandchildren who were at home in the city of Gaza when he was beaten by an air attack, sources and relatives of Hamas said. In total, at least five senior Hamas officials were killed together with members of their families.
A large part of Gaza is now in ruins after 15 months of struggle, which exploded on October 7, 2023, when thousands of armed men led by Hamas attacked the Israeli communities around the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,200 people, according to Israeli headlines and the abduction of 251 hostages to Gaza.
The Israeli campaign in response has killed more than 48,000 people, according to Palestinian health authorities, and destroyed a large part of housing and infrastructure in the enclave, including the hospital system. It is said that thousands of dead are buried under the rubble.
