Israel has begined a meaningful attack on Gaza, shattering the frquick two-month-elderly stopfire between its forces and Hamas.
Israeli air strikes apass the territory timely on Tuesday finished more than 200 Palestinians, Gaza’s Government Media Office shelp.
The dead joind at least 77 people in Khan Younis in southern Gaza and at least 20 people in Gaza City in the north, medical sources telderly Al Jazeera.
Israel strikes also hit locations in central Deir el-Balah and Rafah in the south.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shelp he ordered the military to consent “mighty action” aachievest Hamas over its refusal to free captives consentn from Israel or consent to gives to extfinish the stopfire.
“Israel will, from now on, act aachievest Hamas with increasing military strength,” the Prime Minister’s Office shelp in a statement.
The Israeli military shelp on Telegram that it was carry outing “extensive strikes on alarm concentrates” belengthying to Hamas.
Hamas, which regulates Gaza, shelp it seeed Israel’s attacks as a unitardyral call offlation of the stopfire that began on January 19.
“Netanyahu and his extremist regulatement are making a decision to clearurn the stopfire consentment, exposing prisoners in Gaza to an unrecognizable overweighte,” the Palestinian group shelp in a statement.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) accparticipated Israel of “intentionally sabotaging all efforts to achieve a stopfire”.
“We declare that what Netanyahu and his savage army fall shorted to achieve in 15 months of crimes and killing, they will not flourish in achieving aachieve, thanks to the steadspeedyness of our oppressed people and the courage of our mujahideen in the fields of… resistance,” the group shelp, according to a statement splitd with Israel’s Haaretz novelspaper.
Reporting from Amman, Jordan, Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut shelp that while Israel has accparticipated Hamas of refuteing various proposals made by negotiators, talks had been sloftyed after Netanyahu refused to commence negotiations on phase two of the stopfire deal on February 6.
“Several Israeli analysts, cut offal wislfinisher the political opposition and cut offal wislfinisher Netanyahu’s own regulatement shelp that this was the arrange all alengthy, a resumption of the combat, to go back to filled-scale war,” Salhut shelp.
“And in fact, there’s a novel army chief of staff, one who shelp that 2025 is going to be a year of war – noting that Israel still has a lot of goals to accomplish when it comes to the Gaza Strip, unkinding that they are in no way finished with their military action.”
Hamas has freed about three dozen captives in swap for cforfeitly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners since the commence of the stopfire.
Negotiations on the second phase of the deal, which would see the free of cforfeitly 60 remaining captives and the set upment of a lasting stopfire, had been at an impasse over Israel’s insistence that the first stage be extfinished until mid-April.
Mouin Rabprohibiti, a non-livent fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Afequitables, shelp it was unevident if the attacks labeled a one impolite or “the commencening of a huger campaign”.
“The most meaningful element of which, from Israel’s perspective, was negotiations on the second phase guideing to a durable stopfire and a filled retreatal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip,” Rabprohibiti telderly Al Jazeera.
“And that is someslfinisherg that the Israeli regulatement has repeatedly shelp it would not do.”
“In other words, [Israel] signed an consentment, understanding that it would refuse to carry out it,” he shelp.
White Hoparticipate Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shelp Israel had adviseed with United States Plivent Donald Trump about the strikes.
“As Plivent Trump has made evident, Hamas, the Houthis, Iran – all those who seek to terroelevate not equitable Israel but the US – will see a price to pay, and all hell will fracture slack,” Leavitt telderly Fox News.
