Truce in Gaza ends without extension, 'Israel' resumes war
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Israeli occupation war jets pursue their airstrikes across the Gaza Strip as the Resistance confronts invading Israeli forces at the front lines.
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Smoke rising from a house in Rafah after an Israeli airstrike following the renewal of the war on the Strip on Friday, December 1, 2023 (Social media)
The temporary truce between the Resistance in Gaza and the Israeli occupation entity, brokered by Qatar and Egypt, expired at 7:00 am Friday without any announcement of its extension.
Shortly after, "Israel" renewed its aggression across Gaza, bombing the Strip indiscriminately.
Palestinian media sources reported that 8 martyrs were killed as a result of the occupation aircraft bombing several areas in the Gaza Strip, including Al-Aqsa TV cameraman Abdallah Darwish who was martyred in the occupation raids on the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation resumes its aggression on the #Gaza Strip and resumes with it the deliberate killing of media crews conveying the truth about "Israel's" criminality.#Palestine pic.twitter.com/a7Vi5b4hNk
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) December 1, 2023
The ceasefire had been in effect since November 24, initially scheduled for a duration of 4 days, which was subsequently extended twice—first for two days and then for a single day. However, it was not extended for a third time.
Over the past seven days, there have been seven rounds of indirect prisoner exchanges between the Resistance in Gaza and the Israeli entity, in accordance with the truce terms. The terms stipulated the release of 3 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisoners in exchange for one Israeli captive handed over by the Resistance.
Read more: Resistance liberates 30 Palestinians in 7th batch of exchange deal
Back to war
Israeli media outlets cited political sources as saying that the Israeli military had returned to the state of war, referring to the renewal of the war on Gaza.
#Watch | The first moments after Israeli occupation forces bombed a house in Khan Younis.
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) December 1, 2023
Video credits: Quds News Network#Palestine #Gaza pic.twitter.com/8sw9WFPVOs
The news outlets also mentioned that settlers in the Gaza envelope were instructed to stay near fortified locations, while residents of "Ashkelon," "Ashdod," and the "Gush Dan" area were reminded of safety directives.
This comes as Israeli media report sirens sounding every now and then in the Gaza envelope settlements.
Read more: Al-Hindi to Al Mayadeen: Military captives come at a different price
Intensive airstrikes on Gaza
Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that Israeli artillery opened fire at civilian homes west of Gaza City. Additionally, the Ministry of Interior in Gaza confirmed that Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes in the southern part of the Strip.
The Israeli attacks targeted the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City and eastern Abasan town, located in southern the Strip.
Read more: Gaza martyrs surpass 15,000, dozens pulled from under rubble
According to Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza, Israeli warplanes also struck a house in the Abu Iskandar area, northwest of Gaza City, and targeted Lababidi Street and surrounding areas in Gaza City.
Furthermore, the Israeli occupation conducted airstrikes targeting a house in Jabalia, located in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Israeli warplanes also fired at least two rockets in the vicinity of the electricity company in the northern Nusseirat area.
Additionally, Israeli occupation forces conducted airstrikes near the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah and targeted the Taqwa Mosque in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
Meanwhile, several injuries were transferred to the Gaza European Hospital after the occupation raids on Khan Younis. The occupation artillery bombed the eastern areas of Khuza’a and al-Qarara, south of the Gaza Strip, and targeted residential buildings in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
In the center of the Gaza Strip, three Palestinians were martyred and several others were wounded after the occupation targeted a house for the Qandil family in al-Maghazi camp.
They were all transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
#AlMayadeen's correspondent in #Gaza: Israeli warplanes target an apartment in the city of Hamad in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.#GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/bzpfsHxITC
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) December 1, 2023
US greenlights the Israeli crimes
On its part, the Government Media Office in Gaza emphasized that the international community, led by the United States, represented by the President and his Secretary of State, bears responsibility for the occupation's crimes in the Strip, after granting it the green light to continue the war without any regard for the laws of war, international laws, and humanitarian principles.
The office further added that it is the right of the Palestinian people to defend themselves by all means and to achieve their freedom and independence.
Resistance confronts Israeli tanks
In response to the renewed Israeli war, our correspondent stated that Palestinian Resistance forces confronted Israeli tanks in the northwestern Gaza area of Sheikh Radwan, adding that confrontations broke out in al-Maghazi and northern Gaza concurrently with Israeli shelling targeting the northwestern part of the Strip.
Our correspondent further reported that the Resistance targeted Israeli forces stationed at a checkpoint near "Netzarim" on Salah al-Din Street.
