China News Service, Beijing, December 3 Comprehensive news: On the 2nd local time, the health department of the Gaza Strip said that more than 1 Palestinians had died in attacks by the Israeli army50,000, of which 70 per cent are women and children. Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are currently at an impasse.
The Associated Press reported that the health department of the Gaza Strip said that at least 200 people have died in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli army resumed military operations on December 1, with a total death toll of more than 15,200 and more than 40,000 injured. The official Palestinian news agency "Wafa" reported that the Israeli army attacked the Nuserrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on the 2nd, killing at least 13 civilians. CNN reported that the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research reported that Sufyan Tayeh, president of the Islamic University of Gaza, and his family died in the bombing of the northern Gaza Strip by Israeli forces on the 2nd.
CNN said that the Kasam Brigades, an armed faction affiliated with Hamas, fired rockets at Tel Aviv, Israel on the 2nd. Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the Hamas Politburo, said the Qassam brigades fired rockets in the northern Gaza Strip. On the evening of the 2nd, the Israeli army activated the "Iron Dome" air defense system to protect the central area of Tel Aviv, and launched at least 12 interceptor missiles.
Israel and Hamas began a temporary ceasefire for four days on November 24 local time, and then extended the ceasefire for two days on November 27 and one day on November 30, respectively. On December 1, Israel announced the resumption of military operations by saying that Hamas had fired rockets at Israel. At a press conference on the sidelines of COP28 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), U.S. Deputy Harris said Israel must abide by international humanitarian law and do more to protect civilians, Reuters said. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said at a forum in California on the same day that Israel should protect civilians as "both a moral obligation and a strategic imperative."
According to CNN, the current ceasefire talks have stalled as Israel and Hamas accuse each other of failing to fully comply with their obligations under previous ceasefire agreements. Al Jazeera said that on the 2nd local time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the recall of negotiators in Qatar;For his part, Saleh Al-Aruri, deputy chairman of Hamas's Politburo, said there would be no further negotiations with Israel until a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. France's Macron arrived in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on the 2nd to try to push for a new ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
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