Netanyahu says fighting has resumed in Gaza with 'full force'

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Israel has "resumed combat successful afloat force" against Hamas successful the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said connected Tuesday night.

In a defiant video statement, helium warned that "negotiations volition proceed lone nether fire" and that "this is conscionable the beginning".

His comments came aft Israeli craft launched monolithic airstrikes against what the subject said were Hamas targets successful Gaza.

More than 400 radical person been killed successful the attacks, the Hamas-run wellness ministry said, and hundreds much injured.

The question of strikes was the heaviest since a ceasefire began connected 19 January.

The fragile truce had mostly held until now, but this caller question of attacks suggests plans for a imperishable extremity to the warfare whitethorn beryllium disconnected the table.

The airstrikes connected Tuesday shattered the comparative bid that Gazans had been experiencing since January, and hospitals are erstwhile again overrun with casualties.

"The attacks were truthful abrupt that the fig of aesculapian unit disposable was inadequate for the standard of these ample strikes, and further teams were called successful instantly to assist," Mohammed Zaquot, manager wide of the Gaza Strip's hospitals, told BBC Arabic.

In his address, Netanyahu said Israel had tried to negociate with Hamas to merchandise the Israeli hostages inactive being held successful Gaza. He accused Hamas of rejecting the proposals each time.

Israel and Hamas person disagreed connected however to instrumentality the ceasefire woody guardant since the archetypal signifier expired successful aboriginal March, aft galore exchanges of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.

The woody involves 3 stages, and negotiations connected the 2nd signifier were meant to person started six weeks agone - but this did not happen.

Instead, the statement was thrown into uncertainty erstwhile the US and Israel wanted to alteration the presumption of the deal, to widen signifier 1 which would spot much hostages released.

That would person delayed the commencement of signifier two, which was meant to found a imperishable ceasefire and required Israeli troops to propulsion retired of Gaza.

But Hamas rejected this projected alteration to the statement brokered by US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators, calling it unacceptable.

On Tuesday evening, Netanyahu said Israel would proceed to combat to execute each of its warfare goals - "to instrumentality the hostages, get escaped of Hamas and marque definite Hamas is not a menace to Israel."

US President Donald Trump's medication was consulted by Israel earlier it carried retired the strikes, officials said.

The US National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes said "Hamas could person released hostages to widen the ceasefire, but alternatively chose refusal and war."

Hamas warned the resumption of unit by Israel would "impose a decease sentence" connected the remaining surviving hostages held successful Gaza, and accused Israel of trying to unit it into a surrender.

A radical representing hostages' families has accused the Israeli authorities of choosing "to springiness up the hostages" by launching caller strikes - and has been protesting extracurricular the Israeli parliament.

Israel says Hamas is inactive holding 59 hostages, 24 of whom are believed to beryllium alive.

The warfare was triggered erstwhile Hamas attacked Israel connected 7 October 2023, sidesplitting astir 1,200 radical and taking 251 backmost to Gaza arsenic captives.

Israel responded with a monolithic subject offensive, which has killed much than 48,500 Palestinians, Gaza's Hamas-run wellness ministry says, and caused immense demolition to homes and infrastructure.