Air strikes in Gaza follow the heaviest missile fire from Hamas for months

Israel carried out refreshing air strikes on Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered revenge for one of the heavily heavy missile fires by Hamas for months.

The Israeli army said that about half of the ten missiles that were launched from Gaza late on Sunday landed inside Israel, while the rest were shot down. The Israeli paramedics said that a person was wounded by falling.

Netanyahu issued instructions for a “strong response” while he was on his way to Washington, where talks with US President Donald Trump are scheduled to take place.

The Hamas -running Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Monday morning that at least 56 Palestinians were killed there by Israel over the past 24 hours.

Journalists in southern Gaza, the government media office in Hamas, and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) said that a Palestinian journalist was killed and wounded nine others when a tent was hit by the local media in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, the government media office in Hamas and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS).

Reuters news agency said that footage showed that people trying to put out a fire in the tent, which he said was inside the Nasser Hospital complex.

The dead journalist was identified by PJS in the name of Hilmi Faki from Palestine today TV.

In a joint statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the intelligence agency of Shen said that they had struck a “terrorist in Hamas … working under a press guise and owned a press company.”

They said that the man, Hassan Eslai, participated in the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which raised the war.

PJS said it was “strongly condemned, in the harshest conditions, this horrific massacre.” He called on the United Nations to take measures to prevent Israel from “targeting the entire Palestinian people, including journalists.”

Nasser, the largest hospital still operating in Gaza, has been hit several times by the Israeli Defense Army since the war began.

Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of using hospitals as secret rules and storing weapons, which the group denies.

Earlier, the Israeli Defense Army said it hit the bomber that fired the missiles at Israel, after the residents in many areas of Deir Al -Bala in central Gaza ordered the evacuation.

After issuing the matter, the spokesman for the Arabic Arab, Lieutenant -Colic Avichay, warned that Israel “will launch a severe blow to any area where the missiles are fired.”

Hamas said it fired the missiles in response to the “massacres of civilians in Gaza”.

Footage of the Israeli city of Ashkelon showed a flash in the sky while the sirens were exploding and explosion at the bottom of a block of apartments during the missile attack on Sunday evening.

The rate and size of the missile attacks in Hamas decreased sharply after the first few months of the war, as Israel targeted its nations and launchers extensively. But the group still shoots intermittently in Israel, in a sign that it still has capabilities.

The Israeli air strikes continued overnight after the attack on missile launchers, with the official Palestinian News Agency reports that the sites in the north, central and south of Gaza were injured.

Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron held talks in Cairo on Monday with Egyptian President Abdel Fahia Al -Sisi and Jordanian King Abdullah II as part of the efforts made to regain the ceasefire.

At a joint press conference, Macron said he and Sisi “condemn the resumption of Israeli strikes on Gaza.” He also said that Hamas should not be part of any future government in Gaza, and that the internationally backed Palestinian Authority – the political competition of Hamas – must take responsibility.

Netanyahu said that the Gaza war and Israel’s efforts to secure the issuance of 59 hostages are still kept by Hamas, who will be on the agenda of his talks with President Trump at the White House on Monday.

Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza last month, and blamed Hamas for rejecting an American proposal to extend a ceasefire that started in January. Hamas, in turn, accused Israel of abandoning the original deal that both sides agreed.

The war arose through the unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken to Gaza as hostages.

More than 50,750 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli attack since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.