A Palestinian man carries a toddler wounded throughout an Israeli bombardment in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.

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A Palestinian man carries a toddler wounded throughout an Israeli bombardment in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.

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TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli navy says it attacked greater than 400 targets all through Gaza within the 24 hours for the reason that finish of a week-long cease-fire with Hamas sparked a resumption of fight operations.

The Israel Defense Forces launched video and photos of Israeli troopers conducting floor operations and aerial footage exhibiting airstrikes on buildings and infrastructure. One video, that appeared to focus on a human determine strolling in a road, was described by the IDF as “a strike on terrorists” in western Jabalia, an space in Gaza’s north.

In a press release, the IDF mentioned that air pressure fighter jets had struck greater than 50 targets round Khan Younis, a metropolis within the southern a part of the Gaza Strip.

The heavy bombardment and floor operations throughout Gaza killed almost 200 Palestinians and wounded lots of extra within the first day of resumed preventing, in keeping with the Health Ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza.

The short-term truce that collapsed early Friday adopted seven weeks of preventing in Gaza sparked by simultaneous assaults on southern Israel by Hamas militants on Oct. 7. The assaults killed 1,200 folks, Israel says. The militants additionally seized round 240 captives, greater than 100 of whom have been subsequently freed in a collection of hostages-for-prisoners swaps through the cease-fire. Israel launched almost 250 Palestinian prisoners and detainees as a part of the deal.

Israel has notified no less than 5 Israeli households that their family members taken hostage by Hamas are now not alive. More than 100 others stay in captivity, in keeping with Israel’s navy.

A United Nations official tells NPR that about 50 support vans managed to enter Gaza through a border crossing with Egypt and have been ready to be unloaded Saturday morning. However, the automobiles didn’t attain Gaza’s hardest-hit north. The variety of vans delivering support on Friday was additionally far fewer than the round 200 per day through the week-long pause in preventing — a quantity that reduction officers have mentioned is way too small to fulfill the wants of Gaza’s 2.2 million folks.

Even so, a senior official of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) mentioned the cease-fire “offered a glimpse of what can happen when the guns fall silent.”

An image taken from southern Israel close to the border with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, reveals smoke billowing over the Palestinian territory because of Israel’s bombardment of the Palestinian territory.

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An image taken from southern Israel close to the border with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, reveals smoke billowing over the Palestinian territory because of Israel’s bombardment of the Palestinian territory.

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“We need to maintain – and build on – the progress in aid delivery,” Martin Griffiths, OCHA’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency reduction coordinator, mentioned. “We need civilians and the life-sustaining infrastructure they rely on to be protected. We need the remaining hostages to be released immediately and unconditionally. We need a humanitarian ceasefire. We need the fighting to stop.”

Amid what worldwide teams have described as a rising humanitarian disaster in besieged Gaza, Israel says it is not going to renew the visa of the highest U.N. support official for the Palestinian territories.

Nearly three years in the past, Canadian-born Lynn Hastings was named deputy particular envoy for the Middle East peace course of and the resident coordinator for the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

But a spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres mentioned on Friday that the U.N. had been knowledgeable by Israeli authorities “that they would not renew the visa of Miss Hastings past its due date at some point later this month,” in keeping with Israeli media.

In a press release to NPR, Israel’s international ministry confirmed that Hastings’ visa wouldn’t be renewed. Citing what it calls the U.N.’s “one-sided and biased attitude” within the battle in Gaza, the international ministry mentioned it had determined ” not to automatically approve the granting of visas to U.N. representatives in Israel and to examine each case individually.”