Israel resumes war on Gaza, claims truce violation

26 lives lost as Israel resumes operations

GAZA STRIP — On Friday, the occupation army officially announced its renewing its assault on Gaza Strip.اضافة اعلان

Israeli army claims Hamas violated truce agreement  The military spokesman for the occupation army claimed that Hamas violated the truce agreement. 

26 lives lost According to an Al Jazeera correspondent 26 lives have been lost as Israel resumes operations. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office held Hamas the responsibile for violating the temporary truce.

Israeli PM claims Hamas refused to release all women 
The Israeli PM said in a statement on Friday that Hamas violated the ceasefire agreement - refused to release all the women it held hostage and fired a missile towards Israel.

In a statement, Hamas held the international community responsible for the continuation of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.


On Friday morning, Israeli fighter jets and artillery bombed various areas of the Gaza Strip, at the end of the seventh day of the humanitarian truce.

Press sources said that two infant girls from the Al-Beltagy and Lulu families were killed as a result of the bombing of the Ashqoula area and the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City.

It added that about 20 wounded arrived at the Baptist Hospital as a result of the ongoing bombing of several neighborhoods in Gaza City.


 The sources pointed out that four others were killed and a number were injured, in a raid that targeted a house for the Adwan family in the Western Market in the center of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

 The occupation army aircraft targeted the town of Abasan, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. Artillery also bombed the east of the Central Governorate and Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

It also bombed a house in the Abu Iskandar area, northwest of Gaza City, and bombed a house for the Al-Ajla family in the Asqoula area of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, wounding two women and two children.

It also targeted a house in the Yabna camp in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and occupation boats and artillery indiscriminately bombed the coast of Gaza City, Nuseirat, Al-Zawaida, the areas northwest of Gaza, and the eastern and western regions of the central Gaza Strip.


The occupation army aircraft launched a series of violent raids that targeted several areas in the northern Gaza Strip, coinciding with random artillery shelling on most of the neighborhoods of Gaza City, the north, and the center.

Meanwhile, the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, witnessed several raids, and the occupation aircraft targeted several violent raids on the Nuseirat camp and the Al-Mughraqa area, south of Gaza City.

Earlier, the occupation army said that it intercepted a missile launched from the Gaza Strip early on Friday morning, causing sirens to sound in areas close to the border with the Strip.

The occupation artillery fired shells towards citizens' homes west of Gaza City, and heavy machine gun fire was fired in various neighborhoods of Gaza City.

The Hebrew Public Broadcasting Corporation described the warnings as the first since the beginning of the truce on November 24.

No party has yet claimed responsibility for launching the missile, which the Israeli army said was intercepted by the Iron Dome system.


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