Palestinian families leave the eastern sector of the Gaza Strip on the border with Israel following Israeli airstrikes that targeted northern and other parts of Gaza in the early hours of March 18, 2025. The Israeli army urged Gazans on March 18 to evacuate areas near the border, after it unleashed a wave of deadly overnight strikes, the most intense since a ceasefire began in January. Photo by Habboud Ramez/Abaca/Sipa USA
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.
