BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- A temporary ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Palestinian Gaza Strip ended on Dec. 1, with the two sides resuming an exchange of fire. According to the health department of the Gaza Strip, at least 184 people were killed and 589 injured in Israeli airstrikes that day, mostly women and children.
With the end of the ceasefire, relief supplies did not enter the Gaza Strip that day. The United Nations, Qatar, Turkey, South Africa and others urged that the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip be alleviated as soon as possible.
Smoke rises from a bombing site in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on 1 December. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Rizek Abduljawad).
Resumption of firefighting. Agence France-Presse reported, citing the Israeli army, that since the morning of December 1, the Israeli army has launched a joint army, navy and air operation against more than 200 Hamas targets in the south and north of the Gaza Strip, "including Khan Younis and Rafah."
At the same time, Israeli forces distributed leaflets to the eastern area of Khan Younis, urging the people of the four towns to evacuate to Rafah. Reuters reported, citing leaflets, that the Israeli side asked people to go to "the shelter in Rafah" and that "Khan Younis is a dangerous fighting area."
In addition, the Israeli army released an online map of the "evacuation zone" of the Gaza Strip. According to the Associated Press, the map "arbitrarily divides" the Gaza Strip into hundreds of blocks, and the Israeli army requires Gazans to familiarize themselves with their block numbers and evacuate from "specific areas" if necessary. However, the map does not indicate safe areas where evacuees can be housed, and given the multiple disruptions in communications services in the Gaza Strip, it is unclear how the people of Gazan, who are struggling to survive, will have access to the map.
Also on the 1st, several Israeli communities adjacent to the Gaza Strip sounded air raid alerts. According to Hamas, the group fired arrows from the Gaza Strip at several Israeli cities. The Israeli side has not yet released the relevant information.
On December 1, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, people carry out rescue operations after an Israeli airstrike. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Rizek Abduljawad).
In addition, according to a number of sources in Egypt and the Middle East, Israel has previously informed a number of Arab countries that it hopes to set up a buffer zone at the junction of the Gaza Strip and Israel after the end of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to prevent Hamas from attacking Israel.
Israel has mentioned the plan to Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, the sources said.
Multi-front operations. In addition to the exchange of fire with Hamas, shelling was heard again on 1 December near the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Lebanese Allah said that for the first time since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the group's militants reached out to Israeli forces near the Lebanese-Israeli border** that day. Two people were killed as a result of Israeli artillery fire.
According to the Israeli army, Allah launched attacks on a number of Israeli army posts, Israeli forces attacked the source of the attacks, and Israeli air defense systems intercepted rockets fired by Allah.
People inspect the ruins of Israeli air strikes in Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 1. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Rizek Abduljawad).
In addition, the Syrian Ministry of Defense issued a statement on the 2nd, saying that the Israeli army launched airstrikes on "some places" around the Syrian capital Damascus from the direction of the Golan Heights it occupied in the early morning of the same day, causing damage to facilities. The statement did not mention the location of the attack or the circumstances of the attack. Syrian television reported that "Israel invaded" the vicinity of the Syrian capital.
Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP that Israeli airstrikes targeted multiple "Allah targets" in the Saidida Zainab area south of Damascus.
The Israeli military did not comment on the air strikes in Syria.
The return journey was postponed.
For the families of many detainees, the end of the temporary ceasefire means that hope is dashed. In an interview with Israel**, Mehrav Sversky said that an ex-prisoner had brought her news that his brother, who had been detained by Hamas, and that "he was in good health, but not in good spirits".
In Sversky's view, Israel is "responsible" for the fate of his brother, and the Israeli army "strikes the Gaza Strip every day, which puts him in danger."
On December 1, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, people fled their homes after Israeli forces resumed military operations. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Yasser Cudi).
According to data released by Israel on December 1, Hamas is still holding 136 people, "17 of whom are women and children." Israel accused Hamas of refusing to release all the women detained.
Hamas senior Osama Hamdan told The Associated Press that Hamas refused to release the 10 detained women listed by the Israeli side because they were all Israeli soldiers.
According to Reuters, as of November 30, Israel had released 240 Palestinians, and Hamas had released 105 people, including foreign nationals and Israeli women and children.
Appeals from many sides. For others, the end of the temporary ceasefire means an increase in misery. Jens Lerke, spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said on December 1 that renewed fighting between Israel and Hamas would exacerbate an already dire humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and that "purgatory on earth will return to Gaza."
According to the Palestinian authorities at the Rafah crossing, there were no trucks carrying aid in the Gaza Strip on 1 December.
On December 1, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, people fled their homes after Israeli forces resumed military operations. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Yasser Cudi).
Several consignments of fuel and aid entered the Gaza Strip during the ceasefire. However, the United Nations and some aid agencies warn that the amount of food, water, medicine and fuel entering the Gaza Strip is still far below the needs of the local population.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office said on December 1 that during a meeting with the United Arab Emirates, Erdogan said that Israel's renewed strike on the Gaza Strip was "very negative."
On the same day, Matamera Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa said that the "brutal tragedy" unfolding in the Gaza Strip was heinous and that the war against innocent Palestinian civilians constituted a "war crime" and that "it must now be stopped".
King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa of Bahrain and Abdullatif Jamal al-Rashid of Iraq also called for a ceasefire and an end to the fighting.
Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdelrahman Al-Thani said on 1 December that Qatar was still trying to broker a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. "The continued bombardment of the Gaza Strip has hampered good offices efforts and exacerbated the humanitarian catastrophe. He said. (Wang Yijun).