After a week of truce in the war between Israel y Hamas, early this Friday the fighting resumed. The Israeli army has announced that it is resuming combat operations minutes after the temporary truce expires and blamed Hamas for breaking the ceasefire.
Despite attempts by Qatar and Egypt to extend the truce, the attacks resumed before 6:00 Spanish time. The Hamas-controlled Gaza Interior Ministry says 32 Palestinians have died this morning, many of them children. The Islamist group has assured that Israel is responsible for “resumpting war and aggression” after overnight reject all offers to free other hostages and affirms that it will respond with “firmness” and “heroism” to the new attacks.
For his part, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said earlier that Hamas had violated the terms of the truce by not releasing all the women and by launching missiles at Israel before the agreed time. “With the resumption of fighting we insist that the Israeli government is committed to achieve war objectives: free our hostages, eliminate Hamas and ensure that Gaza will never pose a threat to the residents of Israel,” his office said in a statement.
During the truce, Hamas and other insurgent groups in the Strip They have freed more than 100 hostages, mostly Israelis, in exchange for the release of 240 Palestinians from prisons in Israel. Almost all of those who have regained their freedom were women and minors. It is estimated that 140 hostages remain in Gaza.