On 2 December, the Israeli army continued to attack a number of targets in the Gaza Strip. According to the official Palestinian news agency "Wafa", more than 100 people have been killed by Israeli military planes that day when a house for displaced people was bombed by Israeli military aircraft in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. There is no response from the Israeli side to this question at the moment.
According to Israel Today, the previously reached temporary ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip expired at 7 o'clock local time on December 1 (13 o'clock Beijing time on the 1st), and neither Israel nor Hamas announced the extension of the ceasefire agreement. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a statement saying that fighting with Hamas in the Gaza Strip had resumed.
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office issued a statement on the 2nd, saying that due to the deadlock in the negotiations, under the order of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of the Israeli Intelligence and Secret Service (Mossad), David Barneya, ordered the negotiating team in Doha, Qatar to withdraw and return to Israel. The statement said Hamas had not fulfilled some of the terms of the interim ceasefire agreement, such as the release of all children and women.
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).
Israeli air strikes on refugee camps.
Palestinian television 2** said that the Israeli army launched an airstrike on the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on the same day, killing at least 100 people. A large number of people are still buried under the rubble and cannot be rescued.
The Palestinian health department in the Gaza Strip issued a statement on the same day, saying that since the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 7, the Israeli army's military operations in the Gaza Strip have killed 15,207 Palestinians and injured more than 40,000. Seventy per cent of the dead and wounded were women and children.
Since the resumption of Israeli military operations on December 1, 193 people have been killed and 650 injured in the Gaza Strip, the statement said.
Saleh Aluri, deputy chairman of the Politburo of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said on the 2nd that Hamas would not exchange detainees with Israel before the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
In an interview with Qatar's Al Jazeera that night, Aluri said Hamas had released all the women and minors it was holding. The remaining detainees include Israeli soldiers and adult males serving in the Israeli army, in exchange for whom they will be subject to the "new standard".
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office said on the 2nd that the ceasefire talks in the Gaza Strip have reached an impasse, and Prime Minister Netanyahu has asked the Israeli negotiating team in Doha, Qatar to return to Israel.
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).
Hamas accused the United States of "giving the green light".
The United States seeks to reshape Israel's war against Hamas. CNN published an article on the 1st with this title, saying that before Israel announced the resumption of fighting, the United States pressured the ally to protect civilians, which is "one of the most important diplomatic moves" by Washington in the more than 50-day conflict so far.
Blinken warned Israel** that the longer the war lasts, the greater the pressure from the globe. During talks with members of Israel's "wartime cabinet" on November 30, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked for information on its plans for southern Gaza and asked how long the military operation would last, citing people familiar with the matter, said. He was replied that the military operation in Gaza was expected to take "more than a few more weeks". Blinken did not ask the Israeli side to stop the operation, but expressed concern.
CNN believes that Blinken's tone suggests that the White House does not fully believe Israel's assurances to take all possible measures to reduce civilians**. For example, he said he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that "the purpose is important, and the result is also important."
However, according to Israel's "Jerusalem Post", the Hamas** office responded to the end of the ceasefire on the 1st, accusing the United States of "ignoring the laws of war and international humanitarian law and giving Israel the green light to continue the war", and said that the Palestinians have the right to defend themselves "by all means" and establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. A Hamas member told Al Jazeera on the 1st that the solution was not a truce, but an end to the Israeli occupation, "We spent time in dialogue with all the mediators......But aggression stopped everything". He said that some countries are not prepared to put more effort into ending the war, and that "the United States ** did not put much pressure on Israel."
According to the Global Times, citing the New York Times on November 30**, as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has raised security concerns, not only Israel's international tourism industry has come to a standstill, but the industry in its neighboring countries has also been hit, "ending a year of strong (development) in the Middle East's tourism industry."
Hussein Abdullah, the head of a Lebanese travel agency, said tourist attractions such as the Jeta Caves and the ruins of the Baalbek temple complex, which normally receive thousands of visitors a day, are now empty. Since the outbreak of the new Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Abdullah has not received any travel bookings.
*: The daily economic news is synthesized from CCTV News and Xinhua News Agency.