After a seven-day ceasefire and exchange of hostages and prisoners on both sides, the Israeli Defence Forces resumed military operations in the Gaza Strip this morning.
Israeli warplanes bombed various points in the Gaza Strip
“Warplanes are bombing Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli military said.
As reported by Anadolu reporter from Gaza, Israeli warplanes have resumed air strikes on various points in Gaza.
In addition, clashes continued between Israeli forces and Palestinian groups in northern and central Gaza.
The Gaza Ministry of Interior stated that Israeli military vehicles opened fire on northern Gaza.
This morning ended the “humanitarian pause”, which entered into force on Friday, November 24, as part of the agreement between Israel and Hamas.
-In the new Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, five Palestinians were killed-
Five Palestinians were killed in new Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
One Palestinian was killed and four people were injured in an Israeli attack on a house in the Al-Megazi refugee camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip.
In the attack of the Israeli army on a house in the center of the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, four people were killed and many others were wounded.
Those killed and injured in the attack were transferred to the Abu Yusur en-Najjar hospital.
Clashes took place between Israeli forces and Palestinian groups around the An-Nasr and Rantisi hospitals in the An-Nasr district in the northwest of Gaza City.
-30 Palestinian women and children released from Israeli prisons-
On Thursday evening, another group of 30 Palestinian women and children were released from Israeli prisons.
An International Red Cross convoy carrying 30 Palestinian women and children, who were released from an Israeli prison as part of a prisoner exchange agreement reached between Hamas and Israel, managed to reach the occupied West Bank after an Israeli army raid.
According to the Palestinian WAFA news agency, a Red Cross convoy carrying those from the occupied West Bank, including eight Palestinian women and 22 children, left the Ofer military prison late in the evening.
Israeli soldiers intervened with armored military jeeps against mostly young Palestinians waiting in Betunya, a Palestinian town on the road to Ofer prison and Ramallah.
A convoy of Palestinian prisoners managed to reach the occupied West Bank after raids by the Israeli army.
A group of Israeli prisoners who were handed over by the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza to Red Cross personnel were transferred to Egypt via the Rafah border crossing last night.
The Israeli army announced on Thursday evening that the Red Cross received six Israeli prisoners from the Gaza Strip, and they were transferred to the country.
They said the seventh group of Israeli prisoners released by Hamas on Thursday included a total of eight people.
Earlier on Thursday, the Red Cross received two Israeli prisoners in the center of Gaza City, while it received the other six prisoners in an area in the southern Gaza Strip, near the Rafah border crossing.
A four-day Qatar-brokered humanitarian pause came into effect on Friday, temporarily halting Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and including the release of Israelis by Hamas in exchange for Israel’s release of Palestinians from Israeli prisons.
On Monday evening, Qatar announced an agreement to extend the initial four-day break by two more days, and after that it was additionally extended by another 24 hours.
-Blinken finished his visit to Israel and went to the UAE-
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left Israel after boarding a US military plane at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been announced as his next destination in the region.
-Israel says it is committed to achieving war goals-
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office issued a statement this morning, saying that Hamas had violated the truce blueprints, failed to commit to its duties to release all kidnapped women, and launched rockets into Israel today.
The statement states that by returning to the fight, Israel will emphasize that it is committed to achieving the war goals of freeing the abductees, eliminating Hamas and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to the residents of Israel.
Israel has not received a new list of those to be released for today, according to officials speaking on Israeli army radio.
-Israel knew about Hamas’ attack plan for more than a year-
Israel received Hamas battle plans for an attack on southern Israel more than a year before the October 7 attack, The New York Times reported.
The 40-page document, dubbed the “Wall of Jericho” by Israeli officials, detailed the type of shock attack carried out by the Palestinian group, the NYT reported, but Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the threat.
Israeli officials deemed the plan “too difficult for Hamas to carry out,” the NYT reported.
Israel’s Haaretz news outlet also reported last week that Israel’s “military intelligence service had detailed information” about a possible Hamas attack, AA reports.
