The Israeli army on Sunday announced the start of new “extended” ground operations In the Gaza Strip.
The declaration one day came after Israel launched a new offensive on the Palestinian territory of more than 2 million people In his last Hamas pressure attempt to accept a new ceasefire agreement on his conditions.
THE Israeli military declaration said the army had killed dozens of combatants and reached more than 670 targets in preliminary strikes in last week.
Health workers in Gaza said hundreds of people had been killed, including at least 103 people overnight and Sunday, which caused the main hospital in the north of Gaza.
More than 48 people were killed in air strikes in and around the city of southern Khan Younis, some of which have struck houses and tents that house displaced people, according to Nasser Hospital. Among the dead were 18 children and 13 women, the hospital spokesman said.
In the north of Gaza, a strike on a house in the Jabaliya refugee camp built killed nine family people, according to the emergency services of the Gaza Ministry of Health. Another strike on the residence of a family, also in Jabaliya, killed 10, including seven children and a woman, according to the Civil Defense, which operates under the government managed by Hamas.
The Israeli army made no immediate comments on the strikes overnight. Israel blame the civilian victims of its operations on Hamas because the militant group operates from civil zones.
Israel has appointed his latest offensive “Gideon’s Chariots”, in which he says that she plans to seize the territory, to move hundreds of thousands of Palestinians south of Gaza and to take greater control over the distribution of aid.
Israel says that the new plan is intended to increase the pressure on the Hamas militant group to accept A temporary cease In the words of Israel – which would release the Israeli hostages held in Gaza but would not necessarily end the war. Hamas says it wants a complete withdrawal of the Israeli Gaza forces and a way to end the war as part of any new ceasefire agreement.
Israel said he would wait until the end of US President Donald Trump Visit in the region before launching her new offensive, saying that she gave a chance of effort to conclude a new ceasefire agreement. Trump did not visit Israel during his trip, which ended on Friday.
In the meantime, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Office said that its negotiation team in the Qatari capital, Doha, “worked to carry out every opportunity for an agreement”, including one that would end the fighting in exchange for the release of all the 58 remaining hostages, the exile of Hamas of Gaza and the disarmament of the Palestinian territory.
Hamas refused to leave Gaza or disarm.
Israel has broken an 8-week-old ceasefire before mid-March, launching a fierce air strike that killed hundreds. A few days before the end of this ceasefire, Israel also interrupted all imports in Gaza, including food, medicines and fuel, deepening a humanitarian crisis and triggering warnings from a growing risk of famine in the territory-a continuous blockade.
Israel says that the move is also intended to put pressure on Hamas.
The war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023 when activists led by Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and removing 251 others. Israel’s reprisal offensive killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, including many women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not make the difference between civilians and combatants.
In the north of Gaza, some parts of which were flattened by the Israel assault, at least 43 people were killed in several strikes, according to the first stakeholders of the Ministry of Health and Civil Defense. The Shifa Hospital of Gaza City said that among the dead, 15 were children and 12 were women.
In Jabaliya, a refugee camp built in the north of Gaza, 10 people, including seven children and a woman were killed, according to the Civil Defense, which operates under the government managed by Hamas. Among the dead were two parents and their three children and a father and his four children, he said.
Health officials said on Sunday that the fight against the Indonesian hospital in the north of Gaza and an Israeli military seat promised to stop.
The hospital was the main medical establishment in the North embarrassed by the territory war, after the main hospital of Northern Gaza, Kamal Adwan, was forced to stop serving the Palestinians last year due to Israeli strikes, just like a second establishment, the Beit Hanoun hospital.
The Israeli army said the troops “operated against terrorist infrastructure sites in northern Gaza”, especially in the region adjacent to the Indonesian hospital, without providing more details.
Israel has repeatedly targeted hospitals in his war against Hamas, stressing what he says to be the group’s activities in and around the facilities. Defense groups of human rights and not supported experts accused Israel of having systematically destroyed the Gaza health system.
In the center of Gaza, at least 12 people were killed in three separate strikes, hospitals said. A strike in the city of Zweida killed seven people, including two children and four women, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah. The second hit an apartment in Deir al-Balah, killing two parents and their child, said the hospital. In the Nuseirat camp, a strike struck a house and killed two people, said the Awda hospital of the camp,
Nasser hospital said he had trouble counting the dead because of the state that the bodies had been brought.
While the war in Gaza clings, the conflict between Israel and the Houthi rebels supported by Iran in Yemen has increased.
The Israeli army said it had intercepted a Houthi missile launched in the country early on Sunday, which sparked air raid sirens in several parts of the country.
The rebels said they had drawn two ballistic missiles – including a hypersonic – to Israel’s main airport near Tel Aviv, whose land earlier this month were struck by a Houthi missile.
“The operation has successfully achieved its objective, thanks to Allah, and made millions of occupation of the Zionists rush into shelters,” said military spokesman for Houthis Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree.
Israel has been excluded from an American agreement to interrupt attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen in exchange for stopping their strikes on American shipping ships in the Red Sea. Friday, Israel struck Yemen for the eighth time since the war in Gaza began in response to Houthi attacks.