Palestinian Families Flee After Intense Israeli Airstrikes – Gaza
(Gaza City, Gaza) — Israel conducted extensive strikes against Hamas targets in Gaza overnight, ending a ceasefire that had hit a stalemate. There are media reports that a number of Hamas leaders were killed, including the leader of the Ministry of Interior and a member of Hamas’s political bureau.
Israel says they had no choice but to go back in after Hamas repeatedly refused to release more hostages they grabbed back on October 7th 2023. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says Hamas negotiators rejected all offers it received from the U.S. presidential envoy, Steve Witkoff, and from other mediators involved in continuing the ceasefire. Israel says it will now open the “gates of hell” against Hamas.
Hamas claims that over 400 people have been killed in the fresh airstrikes.
