More than 400 were killed in Israeli raids on Gaza

The Palestinian health authorities said today, Tuesday, that more than 400 people were killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza, which ends a state of relative calm, which extended for weeks after the failure of talks to agree on a permanent ceasefire.

Israel and Hamas have exchanged accusations of violating the ceasefire agreement, which has greatly resurrected since its reach in January and provided an opportunity for the two million people of Gaza to breathe a sigh of relief from the war that destroyed most of the buildings in the Strip.

Hamas accused Israel of damaging the efforts of the mediators to negotiate a permanent agreement to end the fighting, but it did not threaten to respond.

Hamas is still holding 59 hostages out of about 250 hostages that Israel says the movement detained them in the attack on October 7, 2023.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he had instructed to launch strikes because Hamas rejected proposals that would extend the ceasefire during the troubled talks.

“Israel will move, from now on, to face Hamas with an increasing military force,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.

Witnesses said that the strikes targeted homes and camps from the northern Gaza Strip to its south, and the Israeli tanks bombed the Strip through the border line.

The Hamas -running Ministry of Health in Gaza has announced that 404 people were killed in one of the largest number of deaths in one day since the war erupted.

“It was the night of Hell, like the first day of the war,” said Rabiha Jamal, 65, a mother of five children from Gaza City.

“We were attending the meal of suhoor, we were not fasting, and suddenly the buildings were shaking and the explosions were hearing, we thought the war was concluded, but it was formed from again,” she added to Reuters, via the correspondence application.

Egypt and Qatar condemned the two intermediaries in the ceasefire agreement with the United States, with the Israeli attack. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani called for an immediate international action to force Israel to abide by the ceasefire agreement and return to negotiations.

Russia has expressed “great regret” over the air strikes, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volcker Turk said it was “dismay.”

In Gaza, witnesses said with them Reuters that Israeli tanks bombed areas in Rafah in the south of the Strip. Children sat in a state of astonishment next to their luggage, and they were ready to flee the north again after returning to Rafah with the validity of the ceasefire agreement.

In hospitals, which suffered from a 15 -month shelling, piles of bodies are wrapped with white plastic covers stained with blood while dead and injured continued. The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that among the dead are many children, and the number of injured was 562.

Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz warned Hamas on Tuesday that “the rules of the game have changed”, after violent raids on the Gaza Strip, unprecedented in its severity since the truce in January.

“If the enthusiasm of the hostages is not released immediately, the gates of hell will open, and the full force of the army will face … in the air, the sea and the square, until it is completely eliminated,” Katz said during his visit to the Tel Nouf air base.