Israel renews the terrestrial process in Gaza

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Israel has started a new terrestrial operation in Gaza, and regained the lands that have been waived as part of the ceasefire now and threaten more military force if Hamas did not launch the hostages remaining in the tape.

The ground maneuvers come a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended the armistice, as it launched large -scale air strikes that killed more than 400 people in Gaza in what was one of the bloodiest days since the war began 17 months ago.

“If they were released from Gaza,” said Israel Katz, the defense minister, which threatens “complete destruction” from the besieged pocket. He said in a statement, “Israel will disburse a force that you did not know before,” he said in a statement.

The Israeli army issued the orders of the forced evacuation of the Palestinians, asking them to escape cities and cities in the border areas, and said that its forces regained control of parts of the alleged Netzarim corridor, which are divided into Gaza between the north and the south.

The last attack put the end of the fragile ceasefire, as Hamas released more than twenty hostages and Israel that retreated from large parts of the tape.

The multiple deal, which was supposed to lead to a permanent end of the war and the freedom of the remaining prisoners, after Israel has presented new demands from Hamas.

Netanyahu ordered earlier this month with a full blockade in Gaza and blamed the group for refusing to accept a new and difficult proposal for the release of many of the 59 hostages – of whom nearly twenty years are still alive – without agreeing to end the war.

The siege imposed an increase in humanitarian aid, which was a pre -ceasefire condition, which soon began to install US President Donald Trump in late January.

Israel also closed the last remaining electricity line in the besieged pocket, which was forced to close the desalination plant, which exacerbates the lack of clean water of the Gaza population of 2.2 million.

Local officials say more than 48,000 people have been killed since Israel began its attack in response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, when the militants killed 1,200 people and took another 250 hostility.

During his support by the Trump administration, he condemned the Arabs and some European countries that were abandoned from the ceasefire talks by European countries. It also comes despite the consumption of hostages families to continue negotiating to release them.

Separately, a European United Nations employee was killed and five of his colleagues were seriously injured in an explosion in their places of residence in Deir Balla in central Gaza, according to the United Nations Services Office for Project Services.

UNOPS said he understood that the hospitality house is at an isolated site – but it was repeatedly identified for the Israeli Defense Forces – was injured on Wednesday morning, after a similar incident the night before.

“Tots were dropped or released” in the installation and bombing inside it, according to the agency. A United Nations spokesman said it was too early to identify the official responsible. The Israeli Defense Forces denied any role in the incident.

“What is happening in Gaza is unreasonable.”