War resumes in Gaza, Israel leads “extensive” strikes | EUROtoday

On Mar 18, 2025

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HASAlmost two weeks of deadlock, the truce is formally over. Israel led “an extended campaign” of air strikes concentrating on Hamas within the Gaza Strip on the evening of Monday, March 18 to Tuesday, March 18, two months after the entry into drive of a cease-fire negotiated by the Biden administration with the assistance of Donald Trump.

A press launch from the Benyamin Netanyahu workplace specifies that the Israeli military was ordered to hit Hamas “after its repeated refusals to release” the hostages. According to an unaccompanied provisional evaluation of Palestinian emergency providers – managed by Hamas – at the very least 80 folks, a number of youngsters, have been killed and 150 injured within the strikes.

Uncertainty for hostages

According to the AP company, a Hamas official accused Israel of getting ended “unilaterally” to the cease-fire and compromise the spells of the hostages.

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Since the top of the primary part of the truce in late February, negotiations led by Qataris and Egyptian mediators, with the assistance of the American emissary Steve Witkoff, haven’t accomplished an settlement.

Read too Who is Steve Witkoff, good friend of Trump and on the Center for Conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza?Israel had accepted a proposal in early March in early March together with the discharge of half of the 59 hostages nonetheless within the fingers of Hamas (of which about half are presumed useless). Hamas, for its half, made requests deemed unacceptable by Washington, particularly on an extension of the truce whereas pushing negotiations to place an finish to the battle.

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