The resumption of fighting in Gaza today entered its second day after negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas broke down on an extension of the truce. Gaza health ** said that Israeli airstrikes killed at least 184 and injured 589. The United Nations** says that purgatory on earth is back in Gaza.
Reuters reporters in Gaza City said that the truce between Israel and Hamas expired shortly after dawn yesterday, and the eastern area of Ganyounis city in the southern Gaza corridor was heavily bombarded, sending thick smoke into the sky.
Israel's 7-day truce ends and attacks resume 178 new deaths in Gaza, says Israeli airstrikes had killed 184 people and injured at least 589 others and affected more than 20 homes by yesterday evening, Gaza Health ** said. Residents piled up carts of belongings and headed west in search of shelter.
The warring parties accused each other of refusing to accept the terms of the negotiations, which eventually led to the breakdown of the truce. Hamas cannot continue to release hostages on a daily basis in exchange for Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons.
The United Nations says the fight will lead to a worsening of extreme humanitarian emergencies. Lake Lake, spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said: "Purgatory on Earth is back in Gaza. 」
The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Assistance, Mr. Griffiths, said: Today, in just a few hours, many people were reported dead and injured. Local families were again told they had to evacuate. Hopes were shattered. He added that adults and children in Gaza have no safe place to go and few supplies to survive.
The truce, which began on 24 November, has been extended twice, and Israel has said it will continue as long as Hamas releases 10 hostages a day. During the seven-day truce, women, children, and foreign hostages were released, but after the agreement expired, mediators were unable to find a way to free more hostages, including Israeli soldiers and civilian men.
Israel accuses Hamas of refusing to release all the women detained. A Palestinian** said that Israel was breaking the deadlock when talking about Israeli female soldiers.
Israel was attacked across the border on October 7, claiming that 1,200 people had been killed and 240 taken hostage, and that Israel had vowed to annihilate Hamas.
The ensuing Israeli attack wreaked havoc on Gaza, which Hamas has governed since 2007. The Palestinian health authority said more than 15,000 people had been killed in Gaza and thousands more were missing, a figure that the United Nations believed to be credible.
Qatar, who brokered the case, said talks with Israel and Palestine to restore the truce were still ongoing, but that Israel's renewed bombing of Gaza had complicated matters.