Israel has launched strikes on Gaza City, witnesses report
Israeli planes have launched strikes on Gaza City, Reuters news agency reports citing witnesses.
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Updated at 13.53 EDT
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At least two people have been killed and another four injured in one of the strikes, says Gaza’s civil defense agency.
The strike targeted a neighbourhood south of Gaza City.
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Netanyahu’s office issued the statement announcing the strikes just over two hours ago.
The ceasefire deal has only been in place for three weeks – since 10 October. Both Hamas and Israel have accused each other of violations since then.
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Israel has launched at least three air strikes, says the Gaza civil defence. Israeli media has described it as a “wave” of strikes.
There is yet to be any comment from the IDF.
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Updated at 14.02 EDT
The strikes have targeted an area near Shifa, the largest still-operating hospital in northern Gaza, according to reports emerging from the territory. Gaza City is in the north of the strip.
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Updated at 14.26 EDT
Israel has launched strikes on Gaza City, witnesses report
Israeli planes have launched strikes on Gaza City, Reuters news agency reports citing witnesses.
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Updated at 13.53 EDT
Lorenzo Tondo
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered the military to immediately carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza, in the latest test for the increasingly shaky US-brokered ceasefire in the strip.
Netanyahu ordered the strikes after an emergency meeting to discuss what he called Hamas violations of the ceasefire, amid clamour for a return to the war by far-right figures in the Israeli government.
Hours earlier, on Tuesday afternoon, Palestinian militants fired at Israeli soldiers in southern Gaza, prompting strikes from the Israeli military.
Israeli media said Hamas militants attacked Israeli troops in southern Gaza with an anti-tank missile and guns and Israel retaliated by striking infrastructure associated with the militant group.
Earlier on Tuesday, Netanyahu accused Hamas of a “clear violation” of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire, saying the militant group had returned body parts of a hostage whose remains Israeli troops had recovered two years before.
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Hamas’s armed wing says it is postponing handover of hostage’s body scheduled for Tuesday evening after Israeli ‘violations’ of ceasefire
Hamas’s armed wing said it was postponing the handover of another hostage body scheduled for Tuesday evening after what it called Israeli “violations” of the US-brokered ceasefire.
Hamas’s announcement came minutes after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to carry out intense strikes on the Gaza Strip, accusing the militants of violating the truce deal.
“We will postpone the handover that was scheduled for today due to the occupation’s violations,” the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement, adding that any Israeli “escalation will hinder the search, excavation, and recovery of the bodies”.
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Benjamin Netanyahu orders Israeli military to carry out ‘powerful strikes’ in Gaza Strip
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday ordered the military to carry out intense strikes on the Gaza Strip, after accusing Hamas of violating the US-brokered ceasefire.
“Following security consultations, prime minister Netanyahu instructed the military to immediately carry out powerful strikes in the Gaza Strip,” a statement from his office said.
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