“Hamas violated the operational pause and also fired into Israeli territory. “The Israeli army has resumed the fight against the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
Shortly before 6 a.m. local time (4 a.m. GMT), anti-aircraft sirens began to be activated in Israeli towns near the border with Israel. Gaza Strip.
“Following the initial report on the sirens at Kibbutz Holit, several launches were identified from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. The launches were not intercepted as per protocol,” an army spokesman said.
“Israeli forces are currently attacking Hamas terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip,” he added.
The Gaza Interior Ministry, controlled by Hamas, in turn confirmed that “Israeli aircraft are flying over the Gaza Strip and their vehicles have opened fire in the northwest of the enclave.”
According to Palestinian media, the Israeli attacks covered the north and south of the Palestinian enclave. including residential areas, and have already caused new injuries. In addition, Hamas militants confront Israeli ground forces on the Salah Al Din road, which served for the evacuation of displaced persons from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip.
Thursday was the seventh and final day of a negotiated ceasefire Qatar, Egypt and the United Statesthrough an agreement that included the release of hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons and the access of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
Total, 105 hostages were released, among them, 81 Israelis and 24 foreigners, and 240 Palestinian prisoners, all women and minors, were released.
The ceasefire, which began on November 24, marked a pause in the war that broke out on October 7 following an attack by Hamas’s armed wing that included the launch of thousands of rockets towards Israel and the infiltration of some 3,000 militiamen . which slaughtered approximately 1,200 people and they kidnapped another 240 people in Israeli villages near the Gaza Strip.
Since then, and until the day the ceasefire began, Israeli forces waged a brutal offensive by air, land and sea on the Palestinian enclave, killing more than 15,000, burying thousands of others under rubble, and killing nearly two million displaced people fled. are experiencing a serious humanitarian crisis due to the collapse of hospitals and the shortage of housing, drinking water, food, medicine and electricity.
Source: El heraldo
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