Live updates: Israel launches fatal strikes on gaza, shattering fire cessation

The images coming out of Gaza are horribly familiar. Bloody civilians and children paying the price of Israel’s “extended strikes” on Hamas Targets in Gaza.

The jubilee two months ago, when the fire was declared, was replaced by pain and mourning.

Even in January, it was clear that the progress on the second phase of a three -phase transaction Hamas and Israel were ambitious. Today it seems almost impossible.

It is an agreement that the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, had very public reserves. While he agreed with the temporary cessation of fire, he insisted both the Biden and Trump administrations gave the green light to return to the war if the negotiations had not succeeded.

And he saw the way forward not with the mediators of Egypt and Qatar, ignoring the deadlines stipulated by agreement, but heading for Washington to meet face to face with President Trump.

Trump’s decision to support decades of American politics and announce a plan to replace over two million Palestinians in Gaza and create the “Riviera” in the Middle East, was probably more than could have hoped Netanyahu.

He also called death for the initial agreement to cease the fire that Trump himself took credit. Returning to the war, Netanyahu has now supported the far right support in his office, on which his political survival is based.

These elements supported the return to war and a complete destruction of the Hamas; Even a concept even Israeli military officials said it was impossible.

Netanyahu also redirected the internal attention from his efforts to avoid his security and information chiefs and ensured that his presence at his own corruption process will be postponed, although temporarily.

However, the decision to return to the war, however, could encourage more Israelis to come to pre-organized protests today and tomorrow, the meetings that were already expected to be important.

An opposition politician Yair Golan says: “The soldiers on the first lines and hostages in Gaza are only pawns in his survival game (Netanyahu).”

A group of advocacy representing families of hostages says that their greatest fear was fulfilled, adding “the Israeli government chose to give up the hostages.”

What is missing this time is a viable ramp or an American president who wants to convince Netanyahu, no matter how successful, to temper his actions.