Beijing, 3 Dec (Xinhua) -- The temporary ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip ended on 1 December, and the Israeli army resumed military operations in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said on the 2nd that it had attacked more than 400 targets in the Gaza Strip, of which more than 50 were located in Khan Younis and its surrounding areas in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on the 2nd that the Israeli army will expand its ground operations in the Gaza Strip until all objectives are achieved. He has instructed the Wehrmacht to resume fighting "with increasing intensity".
On 2 December, Israeli forces fired artillery on the Israeli side of the Gaza Strip and the Israeli border area. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Ilan Assayag Gini ** Agency).
During the seven-day temporary ceasefire, Palestinian militants released 110 detainees, including 24 foreign nationals, and 137 are still being held in the Gaza Strip, according to Israel.
According to the Associated Press, the Israeli army released a map that marked hundreds of numbered blocks in the Gaza Strip for Gaza residents to remember the numbers of their blocks so that they could leave the area according to the subsequent evacuation warnings issued by the Israeli side. Israel has also dropped leaflets in Khan Younis and other places asking people to evacuate.
The Associated Press quoted Khan Younis resident Hekmat Zidra as saying that a neighbor had been warned that the building would be bombed. "We told them (Israel), 'We have nothing here, why destroy it?'However, the house was still bombed.
This was a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on 2 December from the Israeli side of the Gaza Strip and the Israeli border area. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Ilan Assayag Gini ** Agency).
Maps released by Israeli forces and airdropped leaflets sparked chaos in the southern Gaza Strip. Here, people cannot travel to the northern Gaza Strip, let alone leave the Gaza Strip.
The population of the Gaza Strip is now concentrated in the south, including a large number of people who have fled from the north since the outbreak of the conflict. Following Hamas's raids and seizures of large numbers of military and civilian targets in Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, Israeli forces continued to carry out air strikes and ground operations in the Gaza Strip, while demanding that all residents of the northern Gaza Strip withdraw to the south on the grounds of military operations.
On December 2, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, people pass through damaged roads after Israeli air strikes. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Yasser Cudi).
Imad Hajar fled from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south a month ago. "We have nowhere to go, they (Israel) drove us away from the north [of the Gaza Strip] and are now asking us to leave the south," he told the Associated Press. ”
At the same time, armed elements in the Gaza Strip fired arrows at targets inside Israel. Israeli military spokesman Peter Reiner said Hamas had fired more than 250 rockets since the end of the temporary ceasefire. There are no relevant reports from the Israeli side so far.
*: Xinhua News Agency client Guangzhou ** New Flower City Editor: Lin Chuanling.