The end of the ceasefire agreement, which began on January 19, launched Israel, at dawn today, Tuesday, extensive air strikes on the Gaza Strip, which killed and wounded hundreds of civilians.
The media office in the Strip announced that more than 200 civilians fell as a result of the Israeli bombing, which targeted central, north and southern Gaza.
More than 200 raids
In turn, the Civil Defense in Gaza indicated that 220 Palestinians “the majority of them children, women and the elderly” were killed as a result of the heavy secret raids. “
“More than 220 people, the majority of whom are children, women and the elderly, were transferred to hospitals,” added, adding that “Israel carried out more than 200 air strikes and violent artillery shelling.”
While Al -Arabiya/Al -Hadath reported the killing of about 250 as a preliminary outcome, adding that the Israeli bombing also affected the tents of the displaced in some areas.
While witnesses reported that the bombing focused on the north and central sector, where successive explosions were heard, while ambulance and civil defense crews face difficulties in reaching the targeted areas due to the intensity of the attacks, according to Reuters.
The gates of hell will open
For his part, the Israeli Defense Minister, Yisrael Katz, announced that the Israeli forces “returned to the fighting in Gaza because Hamas refused to release the hostages and threats to harm the Israeli army soldiers.”
He said in a brief statement: “If Hamas did not release all the hostages, then the gates of hell will be opened in Gaza, and Hamas fighters will face forces they have not known before,” as he put it.
He also stressed that the raids will not stop unless all the prisoners and the war are achieved all their goals, he said.
You will continue what is necessary
In conjunction, an Israeli official announced that the widespread attack will continue to “what is necessary.” The official, asking not to be named, said that the Israeli army “launched a series of proactive strikes targeting medium -ranking military leaders, leadership officials, and an infrastructure of Hamas.”
He also stressed that this operation “will continue what is necessary, and will expand more than air strikes.”
Anonymous fate
On the other hand, Hamas held the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government fully responsible for the repercussions of air strikes on the destroyed Palestinian sector.
It also considered in a statement that Israel “turned against the ceasefire agreement and exposed the Israeli prisoners in Gaza to an unknown fate.”
This bloody escalation came after the recent negotiations that took place between the brokers (Egypt, Qatar, America), Hamas and Israel in Doha and Cairo during the past days failed to reach an extension of the ceasefire agreement or move to its second stage.
The war that exploded on October 7, 2023 following the surprising attack by Hamas on Israeli military settlements and bases in the Gaza cover, killing about 48,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in Gaza, and hundreds of thousands were displaced more than once, as well as the escalation of hunger levels after Israel prevented the entry of aid trucks through the Rafah crossing for long months.
