air strikes And explosions Israeli artillery shells hit on Saturday Ian Younisin the south of the city Gaza StripBye Israel continues its offensive against Hamas militants with renewed vigor after end of the truce to a war that lasted almost two months.

Residents of Palestine said that in the last hours Houses and open fields were attacked, and three mosques were destroyed. in Khan Yunis.

In the city Deir el-Balahin the center of the strip nine Palestiniansamong them Several children, killed during an air raidThis was reported by Gaza’s health authorities.

The Israeli army stated that last 24 hours The combined strikes of their ground, air and naval forces reached 400 combat targets And killed unknown number Hamas militants.

Hamas media stated that About 200 Palestinians have died since the end of the truce.adding to the more than 15,000 deaths in the Gaza Strip since the war began, according to the enclave’s health authorities.

Opposing parties They blamed each other for breaking the truce seven days during which Hamas liberated hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.

United Nations said the fighting would worsen the humanitarian emergency. “Hell on Earth has returned to Gaza“Said Jens Laerke, a representative of the UN humanitarian office in Geneva.

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First aid trucks since the end of the truce They came on Saturday on the Egyptian side of the border crossing Rafahas reported Reuters Egyptian security sources and Red Crescent.

The conflict broke out in October 7thwhen the militants Hamas They crossed south Israel and they killed 1200 people, mostly civilians. More 200 hostages They were taken back to Gaza.

Israel responded with a furious campaign explosions and one ground offensive which destroyed large areas of Gaza and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the bloodiest episode of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

There was intense shelling on Friday in Khan Younis and Rafah in the south of the country, doctors and witnesses said. Displaced Gazans have sought refuge there amid fighting in the enclave’s densely populated north, but residents say they are afraid Israel was preparing a ground offensive to the south.

Leaflets dropped by Israel in the eastern areas of Khan Yunis called for evacuation of residents of four cities, not to other areas of Khan Yunis, as before, but to the south, in Rafah. “You have been warned,” the pamphlets said in Arabic.

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Residents took to the road with things piled in their cars, searching for shelter further west.

He israeli army stated that it exists destroyed numerous fighter squads in northern Gaza, including mosque shooting used by Islamic Jihad militants as a command post. In a sign that he is tightening his control over the north, he also ordered civilians in several areas of Gaza City to leave the area immediately.

In that southern IsraelRocket sirens sounded early Saturday in communities near the border with the Gaza Strip, but no major damage or casualties were reported.

truce it started November 24 was extended twice.. However, after seven days, during which women, children and foreign hostages were released, as well as several Palestinian prisoners, mediators were unable to find a way to release more.

Israel accuses Hamas of refusing to release all women what he was holding. A Palestinian official said the rift was due to Israeli female soldiers.

Tastewho played a central role as a mediator, said negotiations were ongoing with Israelis and Palestinians want to restore the truce, but new Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip they had difficult things.

An Israeli official in Washington said that this “very high priority” to secure the release of as many hostages as possible.

“And for this purpose, according to the agreed terms, Israel is ready to take additional pauses“The official said, adding: “We can negotiate as long as we continue to fight.”

However, the President Türkiye, Tayyip Erdoganstated in Istanbul that possibility of peace in Gaza after the break was lost at this point due to what he described as Israel’s uncompromising position.

As a sign of the danger of the war spreading to other fronts Israel bombs Hezbollah positions for second day in the south of Lebanon. Hezbollah said one of its fighters had been killed.

Reuters