Cairo and London report
The Israeli army says it makes “in -depth strikes” in the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas pointing that more than 400 Palestinians have been killed.
Israeli defense forces (FDI) said that it attacked what she called “terror targets” belonging to Hamas. The strikes continue and the FDIs have recently published new evacuation orders for many areas.
Mahmoud Abu Wafah, the Minister of the Deputy Interior in Gaza and the highest security responsible for Hamas in the territory, is one of the dead.
This is the largest wave of air strikes in Gaza since the start of the ceasefire on January 19. Talks to extend the ceasefire of Gaza have failed to achieve an agreement.
Many people had their meal before dawn, part of the Sacred Islamic month of Ramadan, when the explosions started in Gaza, witnesses.
They described a nightmare situation, with fires and bodies everywhere, and desperate injured for treatment.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered strikes on Tuesday morning, a statement from the Prime Minister’s office said.
“This follows Hamas’ repeated refusal to release our hostages, as well as his rejection of all the proposals he received from the American presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and the mediators.”
“Israel will now act against Hamas with increasing military force,” he added.
Israel says that Hamas still holds 59 hostages – all except one that were taken on October 7, 2023. Twenty -four hostages would still be alive.
The Ambassador of Israel to the UN, Danny Danon, warned Hamas to release all the hostages, declaring “we will not pity on our enemies”.
But a group representing the hostage families said that the Israeli government “had chosen to give up hostages.”
The declaration of the Hostage and Disappeared Families forum expressed his shock and his anger against what he called the “deliberate dismantling of the process to return our loved ones”.
The group then launched an emergency call for a demonstration in Jerusalem, saying that the hostages were “in serious danger”.
The Israel Air Force attacked targets in Gaza City, Rafah and Khan Younis in the early hours of Tuesday.
Ramez Alammarin, 25, told the AFP news agency how he transported children to hospital south-east of Gaza City.
“They have released the fire of hell on Gaza again,” he said about Israel, adding that “bodies and members are on the ground, and the injured find no doctor to treat them”.
Mohammed Bdeir told the news agency in Reuters: “We slept, then we suddenly woke up on the strike, they hit our neighbors … We found this girl under the rubble, we pulled her mother and father under the rubble.”
They finally found his daughter’s body under the rubble, he said.
“It was a difficult night for everyone,” Rosalia Bollen, spokesperson for the United Nations, in Al-Mawasi, Gaza, Gaza Radio 4.
She woke up to the sound “very, very strong explosions, our guest house was shaking. During the next 15 minutes … We heard explosions almost every five or six seconds”.
She described hearing howling and sirens outside, while the sound of planes continued general costs.
ReutersUN officials condemned strikes.
The humanitarian coordinator of the occupied Palestinian territory, Muhannad Hadi, said: “This is unacceptable. A cease-fire must be restored immediately. Gaza people have suffered unimaginable suffering.”
Hamas responded furiously to the bombing, accusing Israel of betrayal on the ceasefire. He also said that Israel had exposed the remaining hostages to “an unknown fate”.
But Hamas has not yet declared that it resumes war, calling for mediators and the United Nations to intervene.
The administration of American president Donald Trump was consulted by Israel before realizing the Strikes, a spokesman for the White House told Fox News.
The negotiators tried to find a path to follow after the end of the first phase of the temporary truce on March 1.
The United States has proposed to extend the first phase until mid-April, including another exchange of hostages held by Hamas and the Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
But a Palestinian official familiar with the talks told the BBC that Israel and Hamas did not agree on key aspects of the agreement that Witkoff during indirect talks.
The war between Israel and Hamas was launched by the attack on Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people – mainly civilians – were killed, and 251 others took hostage.
The assault sparked an Israeli military offensive that has since killed more than 48,520 people, most civilians, according to the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas.
Most of the population of 2.1 million Gaza has been moved, many of them on several occasions.
It is estimated that 70% of the buildings have been damaged or destroyed, the health care, water and sanitation systems collapsed and there are shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelters.
