Israel has resumed airstrikes within the Gaza Strip after the collapse of the talks with Hamas over the discharge of the remaining hostages and implementation of the ceasefire.
In a press release within the early hours of Tuesday, the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) stated they have been “conducting intensive strikes on terror targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist group within the Gaza Strip.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace stated that the strikes are a response to “Hamas’s repeated refusal to launch our hostages, in addition to its rejection of all the proposals it has obtained from US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and from the mediators.”
“Israel will, any further, act towards Hamas with rising navy energy,” the PM’s workplace stated.
No less than 100 Palestinians have been killed, Reuters reported, citing Gazan well being officers. Palestinian information company Wafa reported strikes within the central and southern elements of the densely populated enclave.
Reuters quoted a senior Hamas official as saying that Israel has “unilaterally” ended the ceasefire brokered by the US and Arab states. Beneath the deal that got here into impact on January 19, Hamas handed over 25 hostages and the our bodies of eight captives in alternate for round 1,500 Palestinians launched from Israeli prisons, in accordance with AP.
Israel and Hamas have been unable to agree on subsequent steps for the reason that first part of the truce expired on March 1. The Israeli authorities accused Hamas of “manipulation and psychological warfare,” and blamed the militant group for the rejection of the plan introduced final week by the American envoy, Steve Witkoff.
Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif Al-Qanoua advised Reuters earlier this month that the group was working with the mediators to “compel” Israel to implement the subsequent phases of the ceasefire.
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