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Israel resumes strikes in Gaza

The ceasefire between the Jewish state and Hamas expired earlier this month.

Israel has resumed airstrikes in the Gaza Strip after the collapse of the talks with Hamas over the release of the remaining hostages and implementation of the ceasefire.

In a statement in the early hours of Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they were “conducting extensive strikes on terror targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that the strikes are a response to “Hamas’s repeated refusal to release our hostages, as well as its rejection of all of the proposals it has received from US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and from the mediators.”

“Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength,” the PM’s office said.

More than 200 Palestinians have been killed, Al Jazeera reported, citing Gazan Hamas-run authorities. Palestinian news agency Wafa reported strikes in the central and southern parts of the densely populated enclave.

Reuters quoted a senior Hamas official as saying that Israel has “unilaterally” ended the ceasefire brokered by the US and Arab states. Under the deal that came into effect on January 19, Hamas handed over 25 hostages and the bodies of eight captives in exchange for around 1,500 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons, according to AP.

Israel and Hamas have been unable to agree on next steps since the first phase of the truce expired on March 1. The Israeli government accused Hamas of “manipulation and psychological warfare,” and blamed the militant group for the rejection of the plan presented last week by the American envoy, Steve Witkoff.

Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif Al-Qanoua told Reuters earlier this month that the group was working with the mediators to “compel” Israel to implement the next phases of the ceasefire.

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  1. This is why the J3w$ are not and cannot be trusted with any agreement, contract or business deal.
    Their Talmud states that they can only honour the same among themselves, and that non-J3w$ can be specifically swindled, ignored, and not paid for work accomplished, and that it’s OK to break any and all agreements, contracts, and treaties that are not in force with other…J3w$!

  2. Israel resumes Genocide, Holodomor, and Crimes Against Humanity, and not one word of condemnation from any person, nation or entity on Earth has the balls to stop this!
    The arrogance is surpassed only by those nations willing to stand ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ with the Talmudic Murderers!
    That is why Luxon is on his way OUT!!!

  3. I want to see Israel destroy Hamas so that the cycle of violence is stopped. A truce with them just allows it to continue in the future.

    In Islam, there is no such word for peace, there is only a hudna which is a temporary truce. Muslims are allowed to declare a hudna when they are militarily weak so that they can gain strength through weapons or manpower. The hudna can last a maximum of 10 years, after which they are obligated to restart the jihad (i.e. violence) again.

    What Hamas did on 7 October 2023 is Satanic. I am annoyed at the lack of response from some parts of humanity, who seem to have no compassion or empathy for Jews (or anybody in Israel) and who seem to side with the terrorists and with terror in general.

    I hope that President Trump’s plan of clearing Gaza and making it into a nice place to live, like a holiday resort near the sea comes to fruition. As it is now, the place is not salvageable: Buildings can be rebuilt but if the Gazan people refuse to reject their genocidal hatred, then nothing can change.

    If you want to know what Hamas really is, read “Son of Hamas” by Mosab Hassan Yousef. It’s on Amazon and probably other places too. It’s a good read and very informative.

    • Mark, spruce up on FACTS (that means usually do your own dilligence and refrain from confirmation bias) or re-name yourself Mark Dunning-Krueger.
      Otherwise, troll somewhere else.

    • Mark, you are full of hatred yourself. Despicable , having no compassion at all for all civilian victims. Hamas rightfully and legally defends what is his.

      As jacques Baud recently said : why have jews been ” persecuted” through centuries ? Because they behave badly.

      We saw very recently in Amsterdam how the ” maccabi” behaved in the city. Attacking Dutch without any reason and accusing them of ” anti semitism” : scum !!@
      Read also ” 200 years together” by Nobel price winner Alexander Soljenitsine.
      Objective research backed up in archive material.

  4. “Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas (code for defenceless women and children) with increasing military strength, (US bombs)” the PM’s office said.

  5. I just woke up from a nightmare, or did I?
    We have a deadly pandemic.
    The virus is called zionism.
    The spreaders are Ashkenazi (Khazarian) Jews and their agents.

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