[IsraelTimes] As ceasefire collapses, Hamas says over 400 people killed in Israeli strikes, including senior terror leaders; reports say mediators scrambling to resume hostage negotiations
Israel on Tuesday vowed to intensify its attacks on terrorist targets in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
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returned to "genuine" negotiations to free the remaining hostages, as the military continued its large-scale bombing campaign that began in the early morning hours.
The strikes, killing at least 400 Paleostinians according to Hamas health authorities, including several top members of the terror group, brought a fragile ceasefire in Gaza to an end after nearly two months of relative calm in the war-torn Paleostinian enclave.
After a large wave of overnight Arclight airstrike
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s on Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
targets, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency said on Tuesday afternoon the strikes during the day had targeted cells of terror operatives, rocket-launching positions, weapons, and other military infrastructure.
The weapons and infrastructure were to have been used by the terror groups in planned attacks on Israel, the military added.
The IDF also announced that it had eliminated the de-facto prime minister of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and several other brass hats in the terror group in strikes on Tuesday.
The military released footage of some of the overnight strikes, which according to the IDF targeted mid-level Hamas commanders, members of the terror group’s politburo, and its infrastructure. Islamic Jihad members and infrastructure were also targeted.
The initial wave of airstrikes lasted less than 10 minutes, according to the military.
At 2:10 a.m. the order was given, and fighter jets dropped their bombs on numerous targets within two minutes, while drone and attack helicopter strikes took another eight minutes. In all, the IDF says some 80 targets were struck.
The strikes were planned in advance, and the IDF said it took into account the hostages being held by Hamas. Military representatives spoke with the families of hostages overnight and updated them on the developments.
The IDF has repeatedly said amid the war it does not target areas in Gaza where it suspects hostages are being held. Still, some hostages have been killed by Israeli strikes, according to the IDF’s own investigations.
NEW RULES
Earlier today, Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Hamas that Israel’s actions would "intensify."
Defense Minister Israel Katz said that "the murderous Hamas needs to understand: If they do not release all our hostages, our blows will intensify."
The remarks, provided by his office, were made during an assessment with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, and other officials on Tuesday morning.
Later in the day, during a visit to the Tel Nof Airbase, Katz said that Israel would not end the fighting against Hamas until all of the hostages were returned.
"Hamas must realize that the rules of the game have changed, and if it does not immediately release all the hostages, the gates of hell will open, and it will find itself facing the full intensity of the IDF in the air, sea, and land, until its complete elimination," he said.
"We will not stop fighting until all the hostages are returned home and all threats to the southern residents are removed," he added, according to remarks provided by his office.
An Israeli official told The Times of Israel that Jerusalem has a concrete plan "to move forward" with its military campaign in Gaza, adding that "if at any point the other side decides to go back to genuinely negotiating, and we go back to genuine talks, then we’ll stop [the offensive]. At the moment, we’re left without any choice."
A separate Israeli official told the Israel Hayom newspaper that Israel’s goal in the renewed air campaign in Gaza is to push Hamas to agree to the original "Witkoff proposal" for hostage talks.
The outline, attributed by Israel to US special envoy Steve Witkoff, would see half the hostages released at the beginning of an extension of the ceasefire, which would extend till after Passover in mid-April. The rest would be released if an agreement is reached on ending the war.
"Without small releases of hostage and without games, the goal is to get everyone out," the official said.
"Israel waited three weeks for Hamas to begin serious talks on the Witkoff outline," the official added. "That didn’t happen."
Israel’s return to fighting in Gaza was "fully coordinated" with the United States Israeli government front man David Mencer said at a press briefing Tuesday, adding that "Israel has thanked President [Donald] Trump and his administration for their unyielding support."
Speaking in Jerusalem to members of AIPAC’s board of directors, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the decision to resume attacks in Gaza was made "several days ago," adding that the strikes would continue beyond Tuesday.
Witkoff "made two different proposals and Hamas rejected both of them," Sa’ar said. "We found ourselves at a dead end, with no hostages released and no military action. This is a situation that cannot continue."
"This is not a one-day attack," Sa’ar emphasized, adding that the operation would continue "over the coming days."
Hundreds killed, including senior Hamas officials, Islamic Jihad front man
According to the Hamas-run health ministry — which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. — the corpse count from the past day of Israeli strikes in Gaza reached 404 and at least 562 people were maimed, as a front man for the Red Thingy said that many medical facilities in the Gaza Strip are "overwhelmed" after Israel resumed its bombing of the territory.
The figures could not be verified.
"What we heard from Paleostine Crescent colleagues this morning is that many medical facilities are literally overwhelmed across Gaza," Tommaso Della Longa, front man for the International Federation of Red Thingy and Red Islamic Thingy Societies, said at a briefing in Geneva.
While Hamas claimed that Israel’s resumption of attacks constituted a "massacre" of civilians, the group confirmed that at least four bigwigs were killed in the IDF strikes overnight.
Hamas announced the deaths of Issam Da’alis, the head of the governmental activity monitoring committee, a position roughly akin to prime minister; Ahmad al-Khatta, the director-general of Hamas’s justice ministry; Mahmoud Abu Watfa, who headed the terror group’s interior ministry, responsible for Hamas’s police and internal security services in Gaza; and Bahjat Abu Sultan, head of Hamas’s internal security forces.
In a statement, the IDF said it targeted and killed those four senior Hamas officials, as part of the wide-scale bombing campaign against dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip since early Tuesday morning.
The IDF said the strikes were aimed at "causing a blow to the military and governmental capabilities of the Hamas terror organization, and remove a threat to the State of Israel and its citizens."
Da’alis, the de-facto Hamas prime minister, had replaced Rawhi Mushtaha following his killing by Israel in July 2024.
The military said that as part of his role, Da’alis was "entrusted with the functioning of the Hamas terror regime in the Gaza Strip" and coordinating all the branches of the organization.
The IDF said it could also confirm that al-Khatta, Abu Watfa, and Abu Sultan were killed in airstrikes on Tuesday.
Additionally, the spokesperson for the military wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad terror group, known by the nom de guerre Abu Hamza, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the terror group announced.
Abu Hamza, whose real name is Naji Abu Saif, was killed alongside his wife and several members of his family.
Despite the resumption of fighting, the IDF Home Front Command said it was easing some restrictions on civilians in southern Israel.
Following an assessment, the Home Front Command adjusted the activity scale in the Gaza border communities and some towns in the Western Negev and Western Lachish regions from "limited activity" to "partial activity."
This would allow schools and workplaces to operate as usual, provided an adequate bomb shelter can be reached in time.
Gatherings were also now limited to 100 people outdoors and 500 people indoors, though beaches remain closed, according to the latest Home Front Command guidelines.
’I HAVEN’T SLEPT A SINGLE MINUTE SINCE YESTERDAY’
Following the collapse of the ceasefire and the ongoing strikes on Gaza, one Paleostinian civilian told The Times of Israel: "I’m more scared today than I have been in the past year and three months of war. The airstrikes seem more random today than they were before," he said.
One Paleostinian described the early Tuesday strikes as "terrifying."
"There were airstrikes all night. I don’t understand which side broke the ceasefire, some say it was Hamas, others say it was Israel," he told The Times of Israel. His only wish, he added, is "to have a ceasefire. We want peace. We want to live a life of dignity."
Until you have suffered as much as the remaining hostages, we are uninterested. And you had the chance for a ceasefire, but Hamas insisted on playing games. Now your only choice is complete and abject surrender. The man, who wished to remain anonymous, is originally from northern Gaza but relocated to central Gaza with his close family at the start of the war, following IDF evacuation orders.
On Tuesday he told The Times of Israel he is considering returning north due to the renewed strikes. "It’s not safe there, but I want to be with my family and friends, to be near them." However,
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he noted that many others are attempting to move to safer areas within Gaza due to the escalating strikes.
Another Paleostinian, Basel al-Qaran, originally from Gaza but who had lived in Israel for the past 12 years before being recently deported back to Gaza,
…one notes that Israel only would deport him to Gaza if he broke the law… shared his experience: "I’m in al-Shuka, Rafah, near the Israeli border. Everyone has already left the area. I have no food or water; I’m fasting. I haven’t slept a single minute since yesterday. I have no one, I’m completely alone."
On Tuesday morning, the IDF issued evacuation warnings to Paleostinians living on the edges of the Gaza Strip. Footage showed some residents leaving their homes in eastern and northern Gaza.
Regarding the strikes, al-Qaran added: "The noises were unbearable. The light from the airstrikes was incredibly close to me last night. I’m seeing things I’ve never seen before. There was an airstrike on a house near me with 21 people inside — only two made it out alive. I’m still in shock."
Another Paleostinian in Gaza who wishes to remain anonymous told The Times of Israel: "The situation in Gaza is terrifying and difficult. We have nothing to do with this escalation—we are civilians."
If you have not overthrown Hamas and organized a surrender to Israel, you’ll have to wait until Israel handles that for you. Much of Gaza now lies in ruin after 15 months of fighting, which erupted on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led button men attacked Israeli communities around the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, amid horrific acts of brutality, and abducting 251 hostages into Gaza.
The Israeli campaign in response has killed more than 48,000 people, according to Paleostinian health authorities, and destroyed much of the housing and infrastructure in the enclave, including the hospital system. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 faceless myrmidons inside Israel on October 7.
More strikes reported in Gaza, as death toll said to mount
Gazan sources report ongoing airstrikes in several areas of the Strip, as an overnight bombardment appears to continue apace.
Attacks by Israeli aircraft are reported around Khan Younis in Gaza’s south, as well as several areas south of Gaza City near the northern end of the Strip.
At least 10 deaths are reported in the strikes. Quds news, a Gazan outlet linked to Hamas, says the death toll in the renewed Israeli offensive is up to 429. Hamas-controlled health authorities had earlier put the death toll at 408.
Neither figure can be confirmed.
There is no comment from the Israeli military. Israeli officials said Tuesday that the army was only firing on terror
More strikes reported in Gaza, as death toll said to mount
[IsraelTimes] Gazan sources report ongoing airstrikes in several areas of the Strip, as an overnight bombardment appears to continue apace. Attacks by Israeli aircraft are reported around Khan Younis in Gaza’s south, as well as several areas south of Gaza City near the northern end of the Strip. At least 10 deaths are reported in the strikes. Quds news, a Gazan outlet linked to Hamas, says the death toll in the renewed Israeli offensive is up to 429. Hamas-controlled health authorities had earlier put the death toll at 408. Neither figure can be confirmed.
There is no comment from the Israeli military. Israeli officials said Tuesday that the army was only firing on terror targets.
Three hours earlier: Fresh airstrikes reported across Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Gaza-based sources report a fresh wave of Israeli strikes from the air on areas around the Strip, including attacks from helicopter gunships near Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Airstrikes are also reported in al-Bureij in central Gaza and in the al-Tuffah area east of Gaza City in the Strip’s north. There is no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the reported strikes.
Israeli captive killed, two others injured in renewed Israeli aggression on Gaza
[HodhodYemenNews] An Israeli captive was killed in Gaza and two others were wounded, following the renewed Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which began at dawn Tuesday, and which resulted in hundreds of martyrs and wounded among Palestinian civilians.
A Hamas leader told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper that an Israeli captive was killed and two others were injured in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. The unnamed leader emphasized that Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s main goal is to get rid of the Israeli captives.
“The Movement agreed to the proposal of the American envoy Adam Boehler, and was surprised by (Steve) Witkoff’s proposal,” he said, stressing that Hamas has fulfilled all commitments since the beginning of the ceasefire agreement.
The Israeli occupation army resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip at dawn Tuesday, in a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, as air strikes targeted various areas in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 342 Palestinians and injuring hundreds of others, on the 58th day of the ceasefire agreement.
In the latest field developments, medical sources reported the martyrdom of more than 342 martyrs, including 179 from Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip – in a preliminary toll – and dozens of casualties in Israeli air strikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip.
Zionist airstrikes kill Al-Quds Brigades spokesman in Gaza
[HodhodYemenNews] Naji Abu Saif, also known as Abu Hamza, the spokesman for the Al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, has been killed in a fresh wave of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
The strikes also killed his wife and several family members in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
The movement condemned the “treacherous and spiteful assassination,” accusing the “Nazi-Zionist criminal entity” of carrying out the attack with the support, encouragement, and funding of the US administration, while the world remained in “cowardly silence.”
“The martyred spokesperson was known as a voice of the resistance, fearing no reproach in his devotion to Allah, eloquent in his speech, and courageous in his heroic positions in defense of the resistance and the rights of our people, never wavering in his stance,” the movement said in a statement.
It added that the attack “will only strengthen our determination to continue defending our people and their rights until the goals of this aggression are completely thwarted.
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...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...