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The conflict has reached its 57th day. Bombings and fighting resumed after the ceasefire expired on Friday morning.
Published on February 12, 2023 8:45 p.m. Updated on February 12, 2023 8:56 p.m
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Residents flee bombings in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, December 2, 2023. (MUSTAFA HASSONA / ANADOLU / AFP)
Hostilities immediately resumed. The day after the ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, which entered its 57th day on Saturday, December 2, bombings and fighting began again. Israeli forces said they had struck “more than 400 targets” in the enclave since Friday morning, including 50 in the area of Khan Younes, the largest city in the southern Gaza Strip. French President Emmanuel Macron warned Israel that if the “goal” is “the complete destruction of Hamas,” “the war will last ten years.” Here’s what you’ll remember from this day.
More than 400 Israeli attacks since the end of the ceasefire
The Israeli army said it had struck more than 400 targets in the Gaza Strip since Friday, including more than 50 in the Khan Younes (south) region, saying it had “hit terrorists and Hamas infrastructure.” The IDF sent text messages to residents of several areas urging them to “leave immediately.”
Israel now believes senior leaders of the Islamist movement are hiding in the south of the enclave, where two million Palestinians have found refuge. A strategy that poses numerous military and humanitarian risks.
“Terror cells,” a “mosque used by Islamic Jihad (the other major Islamist movement in Gaza) as an operational command center,” and an “arms storage complex” were also targeted by artillery fire and airstrikes in northern Gaza. the army in detail. Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip will continue until “all its objectives are achieved,” particularly the destruction of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a news conference on Saturday evening.
A death toll of more than 200 in Gaza
The Hamas-led government in the small Palestinian territory said 240 people had been killed and 650 others injured since the expiry of the ceasefire that allowed for the release of 105 hostages and the release of 240 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel
According to the Hamas government, more than 15,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war began, including more than 6,150 under the age of 18.
According to Israel, 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the attack on October 7th, and around 240 people were kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip.
Rocket fire on Israel
For their part, the armed wing of Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced that they had fired “rocket fire” at Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip. An Israeli army spokesman said “more than 250 rockets” had been fired at Israel since Friday morning without causing any casualties.
Israeli negotiators who continued talks in Qatar over a new ceasefire with Hamas have returned to Israel because the dialogue was “at an impasse,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Saturday.
Aid trucks arrive in Gaza
The Palestinian Red Crescent announced on Saturday that it had “received aid trucks” through Egypt’s Rafah terminal, the border post with Gaza, the first since the end of the ceasefire. The organization announced overnight that Israel had “informed all NGOs and agencies” that “the entry of aid trucks has been suspended until further notice.”
Emmanuel Macron’s offensive against Israel’s “target”
Emmanuel Macron raised his voice on Saturday with unprecedented vehemence regarding Israeli strategy, questioning “the goal” of the “total destruction of Hamas” since COP28: “Does anyone believe it is ‘possible?’ asked Emmanuel Macron the press in front of Dubai. “If this is the goal, the war will last ten years,” he warned, calling on the Israeli authorities to “specify” this. The head of state called for “redoubled efforts to achieve a lasting ceasefire.”
Thousands of supporters of the Palestinian people in Paris
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Paris again on Saturday to support the Palestinian people. They raised slogans calling for a “permanent ceasefire” in the conflict and denouncing “genocide” by the Palestinians.
Around forty rallies were organized in France. In Toulouse there were 600, according to the prefecture, and 2,000 according to the organizers, with signs like “Israel assassin, Biden accomplice.” According to the authorities, there were 500 in Montpellier and a few hundred in Rennes, according to AFP.