CHICAGO (CBS) — Health care employees got here collectively in Millennium Park Friday night to recollect the medical doctors and nurses killed and kidnapped in Gaza.

The group, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, is asking for a everlasting cease-fire and an finish to the blockade in Gaza.

The group stated 200 well being care employees had been killed by Israeli airstrikes. They held a vigil close to the Christmas tree in Millennium Park.

According to the World Health Organization, 36 well being services in Gaza – together with 22 hospitals – have been broken, with only some nonetheless operational proper now.

The short-term cease-fire within the war between Israel and Hamas ended Friday morning after per week and each events confirmed that hostilities had resumed. Israel accused Hamas, which the U.S. and Israel contemplate a terror group, of violating the phrases of the truce because it was set to run out.

Israeli struggle planes hit targets within the Gaza Strip, killing at the very least 109 folks, in accordance with the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health within the Palestinian territory, as rocket warning sirens blared in southern and northern Israel. An estimated 137 hostages had been nonetheless believed to be in captivity in Gaza after 105 had been launched throughout the short-term cease-fire. They had been freed in trade for Israel’s launch of 240 Palestinians from prisons within the West Bank, in accordance with the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.

As the cease-fire was set to run out at 7 a.m. native time (11 p.m. Thursday Central), the Israeli army said the nation’s missile protection system had detected and intercepted a rocket fired towards Israeli territory from Gaza. Air raid sirens had been heard in southern Israel Friday morning and faculties in central Israel had been informed to open provided that they’ve bomb shelters. Otherwise, lessons had been to be held remotely.

The authorities of Qatar, the place negotiations have been going down for weeks and the place the phrases of the cease-fire had been agreed, expressed “deep regret” on the resumption of hostilities. It stated “negotiations between the the two sides are continuing with the aim of returning to a pause.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on his third go to to Israel for the reason that struggle started, met Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and cautioned Israel to guard civilians in Gaza.

“Israel has one of the most sophisticated militaries in the world,” Blinken informed reporters. “It is capable of neutralizing the threat posed by Hamas while minimizing harm to innocent men, women and children. And it has an obligation to do so.”

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated he deeply regretted that preventing had resumed in Gaza.

“I still hope that it will be possible to renew the pause that was established,” Guterres stated on social media. “The return to hostilities only shows how important it is to have a true humanitarian ceasefire.”

Hamas stated negotiations had taken place all through the evening in an effort to increase the pause in preventing for a 3rd time, and that it had made gives together with returning the bodies of a mother and her two young children who had been among the many hostages seized by the group throughout its unprecedented Oct. 7 terror assault.  

“The occupation refused to deal with all these offers, because it had made a predisposed decision to resume the criminal aggression,” Hamas claimed in an announcement, attributing “full responsibility” for the resumption of the struggle to Israel and the Biden administration for its “absolute support for Israel.”