Air strikes in the Gaza Strip: More than 400 dead, Netanyahu increases pressure

The Israeli army has resumed the fights two months after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian information, over 400 people died in heavy air strikes according to Palestinian information.

Israeli media also reported on persistent Israeli air raids in several areas of the coastal area on Wednesday night. However, the Israeli army did not initially comment on it. According to the reports, attacks from the area around Chan Junis in the south of the area and at Gaza City in the north were reported. At least ten people are said to have been killed in the attacks.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced growing pressure on Tuesday evening on the radical Islamic Hamas, which prevailed in the Gaza Strip. “This is only the beginning,” threatened the head of government. Military pressure is crucial for the release of the 59 Israeli hostages in the hands of Hamas. The negotiations for their release would be “only under fire”. Hamas will be fought until it no longer presented any danger.

Hamas accused Israel of breaking the ceasefire and endangering the mediation efforts for a permanent peace solution. Hamas was always committed to the three -stage agreement.

According to Hamas, there are some high-ranking officials of the organization and family members among the fatalities. Among them are the factual head of Hamas Essam Addalis, Vice-Justice Minister Ahmed al-Hetta and the deputy interior minister and head of security services, Mahmud Abu Watfa. In addition, the rank-high Hamas Politburi member Mohammed al-Dschmasi is dead. A leading member of the extremist group of Islamic jihad was also killed, as was said from the environment of the Palestinian group allied with the Hamas. It is Naji Abu Saif, better known as Abu Hamsa, the spokesman for the militia of Islamic jihads.

“It was a night of hell,” said the 65-year-old Rabiha Jamal from Gaza City of the Reuters news agency about a short messages. “We thought it was over, but the war was back.” According to the Palestinian authorities, more than 560 people were violated. In the hospitals badly damaged by 15 months of war, corpses stacked in white, blood -smeared plastic tarpaulins.

Palestinian civilians in the north and south of the Gaza Strip, which had returned to their residential areas during the ceasefire, were again called up by the army.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said that the attacks would continue in the coming days. “This is not a one-day commitment,” said Saar, according to his office at a meeting with representatives of the Israeli-American lobby organization AIPAC.

The Islamist Hamas rejected two suggestions from the US envoy Steve Witkoff to extend the ceasefire, said Saar. “We found ourselves in a dead end – no hostages were released and there were no military missions,” said the foreign minister. “This situation could not last.”

Netanyahu announced that Israel would continue to fight the Hamas until all war goals were achieved. These are the return of all hostages, the destruction of Hamas and the guarantee that Gaza can no longer pose a threat to Israel.

The Israeli military described its new attacks as a “preventive offensive”. In this way, Hamas should prevent attacks on Israel and rebuild and upgrade their combat units. The commitment is directed against “military commanders medium -sized rank, leadership representative and terrorist infrastructure” of Hamas. The US Presidential Office said Israel advised before the night attacks with the US government. “The Hamas could have freezed hostages to extend the ceasefire, but instead decided to refuse and war,” said a US government spokesman.

The ceasefire came into force on January 19, the first phase ended after six weeks. Because Israel and the Hamas could not agree on the further course of the ceasefire, it should actually be extended at least on April 20 at the suggestion of the intermediaries for the duration of Muslim Lent and the Jewish Pessach Festival.

Witkoff and other US representatives recently presented an updated proposal for an updated proposal for an extension of the ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas at a mediator meeting in Qatar. According to this, Hamas should release several living hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

The Hamas, on the other hand, insisted on the immediate implementation of a second phase of the Gaza deal, which provides for an end to the war and the withdrawal of the Israeli troops. It was originally supposed to start in early March. So far, both parties to the conflict have not negotiated the key points.

In the Israeli coastal metropolis Tel Aviv, tens of thousands of people protested against a continuation of the Gaza War and for an release of the Hamas Geiseln. The war means a “death sentence for the hostages”, stood on a long banner that demonstrated in front of him. According to Israeli information, 24 hostages are recorded in the Gaza strip and the corpses of 35 are deported.

The Gaza War triggered the attack by Hamas and other extremist groups on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which around 1200 people were killed and more than 250 Israelis were dragged into the Gaza strip. Since then, according to the health authority, around 49,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip. The information that does not distinguish between fighters and civilians cannot be checked independently. So far, Israel has spoken of around 20,000 terrorists killed.