The Israeli strikes in Gaza kill more than 400 and shatter the cessation of fire with Hamas

Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) -israel launched Aerial attacks on Gaza band Tuesday early, killing more than 400 Palestinians said local health officials and shattering a fire cessation Instead of January, with the most fatal bombing in a 17-month war with Hamas.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the strikes, who have largely killed women and children after Hamas refused Israeli requests to modify the fire termination agreement. Officials said the operation is open and expect to expand. The White House said it was consulted and expressed support for the actions of Israel.

The Israeli army ordered people to evacuate the East Gaza and to go to the center of the territory, which indicates that Israel could soon launch renewed ground operations. The new campaign comes as the help groups warn the deliveries end two weeks after Israel Turn all foods, medicines, fuel and other goods for the 2 million Palestinians in Gaza.

“Israel will act, from now on, against Hamas with an increasing military power,” said Netanyahu office.

Attack during the Holy Muslim month of Ramadan could signal the full resumption of a war that has already killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and caused wide -scale destruction in Gaza. He also raised concerns about fate About two dozen Israeli hostages held by Hamas who is believed to be still alive.

The renewal of the campaign against Hamas, which is supported by Iran, came while the US and Israel climbed the attacks this week throughout the region. The US has launched deadly strikes against Iran allied rebels in Yemen, while Israel targeted Iran and Syria supported militants.

A High official of Hamas said that Netanyahu decision to return to war rises to a “death sentence” for the remaining hostages. Izzat Al-Irisheq accused Netanyahu of launching the strikes to save his far-right ruling coalition and asked the mediators to “reveal facts” about who broke the armistice. Hamas said at least six senior officials were killed in Tuesdays.

No Hamas’s attack were reported a few hours after bombing.

Strikes came as Netanyahu enters under internal pressure mountedwith planned mass protests regarding the management of the hostage crisis and his decision to dismiss the head of the Internal Security Agency. His last testimony in A long -term corruption process was canceled after strikes.

The strikes seemed to give Netanyahu a political impulse, with a far -right party that screwed the government over the ceasefire that announced on Tuesday that it would join.

The main group representing the families of the hostages accused the government of ceasing the fire. “We are shocked, upset and terrified by the deliberate disassembly of the process to return the loved ones from the terrible captivity of Hamas,” said the forum of the hostages and missing families.

The wounded flow in hospitals in Gaza

The strikes in Gaza beat houses, sparked fires in a camp of tents of displaced people outside Khan Younis and hit at least one shelter transformed into school.

After two months of relative calm during the cessation of fire, the astonished Palestinians woke up again digging their loved ones and holding funeral prayers over the dead at the hospital morgues.

“No one wants to fight,” said the phone in Gaza, the Palestinian resident, Nidal Alzaanin. “Everyone still suffers from the previous months.”

A hit on a house in Rafah killed 17 members of a familyAccording to the European Hospital, which received the bodies. The dead included five children, their parents and another father and his three children.

At Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital, the patients were on the floor, some shouting. A young woman cried as her bloody arm was bandaged. The injured children overwhelmed the pediatric section, said Dr. Tany-Hassan, a volunteer with medical help for the Palestinian aid group.

“We woke up to a frenzy with aerial attack. The windows were trembling, the doors flew open,” she said. “Since then, patients have flow.”

The Ministry of Health of Gaza said that the strikes killed at least 404 people and injured more than 560. Zaheidi, the head of the Ministry of Registration Department, said at least 263 of the killed were women or children under 18. He described it as the most deadly day in Gaza since the beginning of the war.

The war killed over 48,500 Palestinians, according to local health officials and moved about 90% of the Gaza population. The Ministry of Health does not differ between civilians and militants, but says that over half of the dead were women and children.

The war broke out when the militants led by Hamas stormed in the south of Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, largely civilians and taking 251 hostages. Most were released into cessation or other offers, with Israeli forces saving only eight and recovering dozens of bodies.

US supports Israel and blames Hamas

The White House sought to blame Hamas for renewed struggles. The spokesman of the National Security Council, Brian Hughes, said that the militant group “could have released the hostages to expand the cessation of fire, but instead chose the refusal and the war.”

The cessation agreement that the US helped on the broker, however, did not force Hamas to release more hostages to expand the stop beyond his first phase.

An Israeli official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the operating operation, said that Israel hit the military, leaders and infrastructure of the Hamas and intends to expand the operation beyond the air attacks.

The official accused Hamas of trying to rebuild and plan new attacks. Hamas militants and security forces quickly returned to the streets In recent weeks after the ceasefire has entered into force. Hamas denied on Tuesday to plan new attacks.

In Israel, the military said that the IT and police have launched raids in the cities of Nablus, Qalqiliya and elsewhere, retaining at least 13 suspect militants and confiscating weapons. He said a militant was killed.

Israel sought to change the fire termination agreement

Under the cessation of fire that started in mid -January, Hamas released 25 hostages and bodies still eight in exchange for over 1,700 Palestinian prisoners, as agreed in the first phase.

But Israel prevented him from negotiating in two phase. According to the agreement, the second phase was meant to release the 24 living hostages still in captivity and to put an end to the war and the full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Israel says Hamas also owns the remains of 35 captives.

Instead, Israel asked for the release of Hamas Half of the remaining hostages In exchange for an extension of the armistice and a vague promise to eventually negotiate a lasting armistice. Hamas refused, requesting that the two parties follow the initial agreement, which asked to continue the armistice during the negotiations in the second phase.

Although the Israeli forces killed dozens of Palestinians whom the military say approached their troops or entered unauthorized areas since the ceasefire, the agreement took place largely. Egypt, Qatar and United States tried to mediate the next steps.

Israel says it will not end the war until it destroys Hamas’s government and military capabilities and releases all hostages – two goals that could be incompatible.

A complete resumption of the war would allow Netanyahu to avoid the hard compromises requested in the second phase of the agreement and in the thorny question who will govern Gaza.

It would also make its coalition, which depends on the far-right parliamentarians who want to depopulate gaza and reconstructs the Jewish settlements there.

This was already moving with the far right return Itamar Ben-Gvir and his party at Netanyahu government on Tuesday.

Netanyahu faces increasing critics

The issued hostages, some of whom were emaciated, repeatedly begged the government to press the fire to return all the remaining captives. Tens of thousands of Israelis have taken part in mass protests that require the cessation of fire and the return of all hostages.

Mass demonstrations are planned later on Tuesday and Wednesday following the Netanyahu ad this week that he wants to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet internal security agency. Critics have left the move as an attempt by Netanyahu to deviate the fault for his government’s failures in the attack and treatment of the war on October 7th.

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Federman reported from Jerusalem and Magdy from Cairo. Reporters Associated Press Mohammad Jahjouh in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip; Abdel Kareem Hana in Gaza City, Gaza Strip; Fatma Khaled in Cairo; And Tia Goldenberg in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed.

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