The Israeli occupation continued, on Wednesday, its refusal to honor the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, which came into effect on January 19 and lasted for nearly two months, after 471 days of genocide.
At dawn on Tuesday, March 18, the occupation resumed its brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip with dozens of airstrikes, killing more than 400 people and wounding 500 within hours, most of them children and women.
In early March, the first phase of the 42-day ceasefire agreement in Gaza ended. It included a multi-stage prisoner exchange between resistance factions and Israel, a limited withdrawal of the Israeli army, and the return of displaced persons to their destroyed homes.
Israel has reneged on entering the second phase of the ceasefire agreement, which was supposed to last for 42 days, followed by a third phase of the same duration, leading to a permanent ceasefire and cessation of hostilities.
On October 7, 2023, the commander-in-chief of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the martyr Muhammad Deif, announced the launch of Operation “Flood of Al-Aqsa” in response to the occupation’s crimes against the Palestinians and its repeated incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army announced the launch of Operation “Iron Swords” against the Gaza Strip.
Since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, 65,382 citizens have been martyred, while the number of injured has reached 166,985, approximately 72% of whom are women and children, according to the Ministry of Health.
In contrast, Israeli military estimates indicate that more than 1,500 Israelis have been killed since the start of the fighting, including more than 700 officers and soldiers, in addition to approximately 10,000 wounded.
Here are the latest developments:
6:15 AM Sources in Gaza hospitals: 29 martyrs in Israeli raids on the Strip since dawn today, including 24 in Gaza City.
5:14 AM: 5 martyrs and wounded in an Israeli bombardment targeting the home of the Al-Hams family in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
3:35 A tenth explosion was heard over the ships of the Global Steadfastness Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea.
3:34 A woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Yarmouk area in central Gaza City.
3:16 AM The death toll from the occupation’s bombing of an area sheltering displaced people in central Gaza City has risen to 20, including children.
3:08 Ships within the global steadfastness flotilla to break the siege on the Gaza Strip are subjected to a number of drone attacks.
2:43 PM: Occupation forces fire flares in the airspace of Tel al-Hawa, southwest of Gaza City.
2:34 PM Five ships within the global steadfastness flotilla to break the siege on the Gaza Strip were subjected to a number of drone attacks.
2:27 AM Emergency: 7 martyrs and dozens injured in Israeli shelling of a building housing displaced people near the Firas Market in Gaza City.
1:53 AM (Updated) 4 martyrs and wounded after Israeli shelling of the Khattab family home in the Nuseirat 1 camp in the central Gaza Strip.
1:49 AM Martyrs and wounded as Israeli warplanes target a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
1:40 AM: Injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the vicinity of the main Gaza Municipality building near Palestine Square (Al-Saha) in Gaza City.
1:38 AM Israeli airstrike on Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip
1:37 AM An Israeli airstrike targeted the vicinity of the main Gaza Municipality building near Palestine Square (the square) in Gaza City.
1:31 AM Steadfastness Fleet: Drones shot down unidentified objects, and we heard explosions in the ocean, along with communications jamming.
1:21 Two Israeli raids on Gaza City
00:54 Israeli air strike on Gaza City
00:39 Israeli artillery shelling north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip
00:36 An Israeli Apache helicopter fires at civilian homes in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
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