At least 109 Palestinians have been killed since the conclusion of a week-long ceasefire, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported on Friday. Hundreds more have been wounded as Israel resumed its high-intensity bombardment of the enclav
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it had struck more than 200 targets since the ceasefire expired at 7am local time on Friday, noting that the assault has resumed across ground, air, and sea on both north and south Gaza, including the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah.
After releasing 110 hostages during the ceasefire, Hamas still holds 137 captives, Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy told reporters on Friday, promising to deliver “the mother of all thumpings” to the Palestinian militants for “failing to release all the kidnapped women.” The vast majority – 126 – are Israelis.
Israel released about 240 Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails during the ceasefire. According to NBC, 80% of the prisoners identified as eligible for release had never been convicted of a crime, and many of those had not even been charged, held instead under a controversial practice known as administrative detention.
The IDF, which resumed bombing just minutes after the pause expired, claimed Hamas had fired off rockets in violation of the truce. The militant group countered that West Jerusalem had “persistently” rejected further offers of hostage releases that could have prolonged the ceasefire.
Efforts by the US, France, and other Israeli allies to extend the pause in fighting were unsuccessful.
After weeks of failed negotiations aimed at reaching a temporary cessation of hostilities to facilitate a prisoner exchange and the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza, the two sides agreed to a four-day Qatari-brokered ceasefire starting November 24. Israel initially pledged to release 150 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 50 of the approximately 240 hostages taken by Hamas, vowing to extend the ceasefire by one day for every ten prisoners released.
Over 15,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 30,000 wounded since Israel declared war on Hamas in response to the militants’ October 7 attack, Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, noting that the Gaza Health Ministry had stopped reporting exact casualty counts as Israeli bombing had decimated its hospital system while rendering the retrieval of bodies from the rubble prohibitively dangerous. Nearly 80% of the enclave’s 2.1 million people have been forced out of their homes, he said, accusing Israel of waging “a full-fledged war against Palestine and its people.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) chief on Friday said that he is "extremely concerned" about the resumption of fighting in Gaza, as the humanitarian pause came to an end earlier in the day.
"We are extremely concerned about the resumption of fighting in Gaza," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who heads the UN agency, said on X.
Stressing that the ongoing hostilities have crippled the health care system, he warned, "Gaza can’t afford to lose any more hospitals or hospital beds," referring to how almost all of the hospitals in the strip had to close or stop offering care due to chronic shortages and ongoing Israeli attacks.
"We need a ceasefire. A ceasefire that holds," he urged. "A ceasefire that progress to peace."
At least 109 Palestinians have been killed and many others injured in Israeli airstrikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip since the humanitarian pause – which went into effect a week ago – ended, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Israel's attacks resumed just after the humanitarian pause ended, as Israeli officials had pledged, though political leaders and civic groups worldwide had implored Israel to hold off
Iranian FM urges Israel, U.S. to stop attacks on Gaza
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Friday called on Israel and the United States to immediately "stop the war on Gaza before it's too late."
In a post on social media platform X, Amir-Abdollahian said no solution existed to the crisis but an "open-ended ceasefire," sending extensive humanitarian aid to Gaza and reaching an agreement on hostages-prisoners exchange between the two sides.
Israel and Hamas agreed to a humanitarian truce on Nov. 24. Fighting between the two sides resumed on Friday morning, after Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire agreement and firing at Israeli territory.
In a post on X, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Friday condemned Israel for its "violation of the ceasefire and resumption of its military aggression" against Gaza.
Kanaani stressed that the Israeli attacks came as most of the world's peoples and governments were calling for the extension of the ceasefire and complete cessation of the Israeli attacks against Gaza and the West Bank, adding civilians, children and women would again become the "main victims of the Israeli military's criminal attacks.
‘Bombing everywhere’: As Israel renews war, my eight-year-old has questions
After a week-long temporary truce, the Israeli air strikes have unfortunately resumed.
The past seven days of relative calm have come to an end, and the familiar sounds of bombings, explosions, aircraft, artillery, naval boats and live ammunition are back.
These were our daily experiences for seven weeks before the truce, and we had become adept at distinguishing between them, including the distinctive sounds of rockets from Gaza and Israeli bombings.
This morning, at 7:00 sharp, the violent sounds resumed from land, air and sea, evoking new memories of sadness on my family’s faces.
My brother, opening the window to see what was happening, remarked, “Bombing is from everywhere.”
The toughest question came from my eight-year-old daughter, Banias, asking if this was war again. My husband explained that the past “calm” days were just a temporary truce, and the war had not ended.
Banias struggled to comprehend this strange cycle of war, pause, and then war again.
Reflecting on Banias’s confusion, I wondered how a young mind grapples with the illogical nature of war—pauses followed by resumptions.
Fifty-six days of conflict were apparently insufficient to secure a ceasefire.
Yesterday, displaced people living in tents amid dire conditions near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza Strip expressed distress, fear and despair, desiring not a temporary truce but a lasting ceasefire to return to their homes, even if damaged.
Their fear – that a new resumption of war would mean that Israel would move to bomb the south. Early today, their expectations came true as Israeli troops threw leaflets asking people living in east Khan Younis to move to Rafah at the southern edge of Gaza.
As air strikes persist from north to south, I ponder the multitude of wars faced by the people of Gaza: displacement, destruction, humiliation, tent living, thirst, hunger and the anxiety of temporary pauses followed by renewed bombing.
What should the people of Gaza do to make the world feel for them? How can the world allow the genocide to continue again? How will we return to the bloodshed again and worry about the loss of our loved ones? How, how and how?
I know that these questions will remain unanswered. The past 56 days have taught me, as they have shown to all of the people of Gaza, that our fears, lives, pain, hopes and dreams are not included in the calculations of this world.
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