Combat operations started again in Gaza Strip minutes after a temporary truce with Hamas expired.
The truce expired at 7am (9am, UAE time) on Friday.
On November 24, Hamas and Israel started the temporary truce.
It lasted for four days, and then was extended for several days with the help of Qatar and fellow mediator Egypt.
During the week-long truce, Hamas and other militants in Gaza released more than 100 hostages.
Most of them are Israelis, in return for 240 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons.
The third group of wounded Palestinian children and cancer patients arrived in the UAE on Monday, in implementation of the directives of President to provide medical treatment for 1,000 injured children, and 1,000 cancer patients from the Gaza Strip, in the UAE’s hospitals pic.twitter.com/HKTvH0G2y1
— UAE Voice (@uae_voiceeng) November 28, 2023
Combat Operations Resumed in Gaza and Israeli missile defence system intercepted a rocket fired from Gaza.
Hamas had also been expected to set a higher price for the remaining hostages.
Especially Israeli soldiers.
About 140 hostages remain in Gaza, with more than 100 having been freed as part of the truce.
Qatar and Egypt, which have played a key role as mediators, had sought to prolong the truce by another two days.
Earlier today, the Israeli military said its missile defence system intercepted a rocket fired from Gaza.
Which was around an hour before a truce with Hamas was due to expire.
Following the initial report regarding sirens sounded in communities near the Gaza Strip.
The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) Aerial Defense Array successfully intercepted a launch from the Gaza Strip
The military said on its official Telegram account.
The rocket was the first launched from Gaza since a missile fired shortly into the first day of a truce that has lasted seven days, the military said.
Eyewitnesses reported heavy aircraft and drone activity in northwestern Gaza on Thursday morning, an AFP reporter said.
Antony Blinken asked Israel to protect civilians in Gaza.
Before resuming any military operations in Gaza.
Even he called Israel to comply with international law and protect civilians during their major military operations in southern Gaza.
But there is some change in the American position.
As the number of Palestinian civilian casualties began to rise dramatically.
