IDF: We hit 200 Gaza targets since Hamas ceasefire violation; 50 rockets fired at Israel
The IDF says that since 7 a.m., following Hamas’s violation of the ceasefire, it has carried out airstrikes against some 200 targets across the Gaza Strip.
Several of the strikes took place in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis and Rafah.
Some of the strikes in northern Gaza were directed by forces of the 162nd, 36th, and 252nd divisions.
The IDF says ground troops meanwhile demolished structures that were booby-trapped with explosives, tunnel shafts, rocket launch sites, and other infrastructure belonging to Hamas.
Navy missile boats, tanks and artillery also carried out strikes in Gaza today, it adds.
Meanwhile, roughly 50 rockets have been fired at southern Israeli towns from Gaza.
Kibbutz says resident Ronen Engel murdered by Hamas; family freed from Gaza this week
Kibbutz Nir Oz announces that Ronen Engel, 54, previously thought to be a hostage in Gaza following the October 7 attack, was murdered by Hamas.
Engel’s family were released from captivity on Monday: wife Karina Engel-Bart, 51, and daughters Mika, 18, and Yuval, 11.
UNICEF: ‘Those in power have decided killing of children will recommence’ in Gaza
The UN children’s agency UNICEF condemns the resumption of fighting in Gaza, saying: “Today, those in power have decided that the killing of children would recommence.”
Spokesman James Elder says the “dire” state of health, nutrition, water and sanitation threatens to trigger “a disaster of unparalleled magnitude for the children of Gaza.
“To accept the sacrifice of the children in Gaza is humanity giving up,” he tells the Geneva briefing via video-link from the Palestinian enclave.
IDF says Iron Dome intercepted ‘suspicious aerial target’ from Lebanon
Incoming rocket sirens sound in the Upper Galilee
Incoming rocket sirens are sounding in the Upper Galilee.
The alerts are activated in Shear Yeshuv, HaGoshrim, Dafna and Beit Hillel.
Israel says 137 hostages are still being held in Gaza
Israel says that 137 hostages are still being held in the Strip after 110 returned home.
Among those still in captivity after the end of the truce Friday are 115 men, 20 women and two children, government spokesperson Eylon Levy says. Ten of the hostages are 75 and older, he says. The majority, or 126, are Israeli and 11 are foreign nationals, including eight from Thailand.
Levy lists the youngest hostage, 10-month-old Kfir Bibas, his 4-year-old brother Ariel and their mother Shiri as among the hostages. The military has said it is investigating a Hamas claim that the boys and their mother were killed.
Jordan’s king: War intensifying threats from climate change in Gaza
Jordan’s king says war is making the threats from climate change even worse in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities resume between Israel and Hamas after a week-long truce.
King Abdullah II tells the UN’s COP28 climate talks in Dubai that “we cannot talk about climate change in isolation from the humanitarian tragedies unfolding around us.
“In Gaza, over 1.7 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes. Tens of thousands have been injured or killed in a region already on the front lines of climate change,” he tells a gathering of world leaders. “The massive destruction of war makes the environmental threats of water scarcity and food insecurity even more severe. In Gaza our people are living with little clean water and the bare minimum of food supplies, as climate threats magnify the devastation of war.”
Five soldiers wounded by mortar near southern community
Five IDF soldiers were wounded as a result of a mortar strike near the southern community of Nirim this morning, the military says.
Rocket alerts sound in southern communities
Senior Israeli to TV: ‘If they return women, there’ll be a pause – equation is simple’
A senior Israeli official tells Channel 13: “If they return our women, there will be a day’s pause. The equation is simple.”
Channel 12 cites a diplomatic official as saying “There will be several days of combat. Hamas knows the conditions for a return to the pause.”
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