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Hamas launched a rocket in Israel from Gaza on Thursday. This fires the first response to a new attack on the strip, where extremist groups shattered a fragile two-month ceasefire against Israel’s new attack.
Israel resumed its attack in Gaza on Tuesday, first firing the strip in an airstrike before launching an attack on the ground a day later. More than 500 children have been killed, including 200 children, since the new attacks began, according to Gaza’s Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Israeli forces said Hamas had fired three projectiles in central Israel. One was intercepted, two “falling into an open area” and no victims were reported.
Hamas military wing, the Al-Kassam Brigade, confirmed that in retaliation for the Israeli attack, it had “bombed the city of Tel Aviv deep in the territory occupied by the barrage of M90 rockets.”
Israel also fired overnight from the Hooty rebels in Yemen. The Iranbach militia said they had fired ballistic missiles in Israel in response to Israel’s new war in Gaza. Israeli forces said they had intercepted the missile.
Israel is denounced a new fight with Hamas for its refusal to accept the revised ceasefire conditions. Hamas accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of unilaterally overturning the armistice and “putting hostages in danger of an unknown fate.”
Netanyahu faced anger from Jerusalem protesters on Wednesday, with thousands gathering outside of Israeli parliament Knesset to oppose a new fight.
Protesters accused Netanyahu of resuming the war to solidify his governing coalition, which has long threatened to collapse due to the war divisions in Gaza.
After heavy airstrikes on Tuesday, far-right Minister Itamar Ben Gwil said he would return to Netanyahu’s coalition. He left the government in January after Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Hamas.
At a National Security Department meeting on Thursday, Ben Goville said “after two months of rest, he was happy to return.”
Ben Gwil’s return to government will come as a boon for Netanyahu, who will have to pass Israel’s next budget or face a new election before the March 31 deadline.
Israel has continued to kill at least 85 people since early Thursday, after announcing “targeted ground activities” on Wednesday.
Gaza’s health ministry said tolls are likely to rise if many people are buried under the tiled rub.
Israeli forces have taken the corridors of Netzarim, the land that divides Gaza in half, and said they have split the city of Central Gaza and the northern region from the southern part of the strip adjacent to Egypt.
On Thursday, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said it launched another ground attack in Gaza this time north of the strip.
“About the past few hours, IDF forces have begun to carry out ground operations along coastal routes in the Beitrahia region of the northern Gaza Strip,” the military said in a statement.
According to the IDF, Thursday’s northern ground operation took place in Israel’s streets the same morning.
Gaza Civil Defense said more than 50 people have been killed in the Beit Rahia strike. One of the strikes targeted the Abunasl family home in the Arsarachin district, adding that it killed 15 people.
Beit Rahia resident Mfida Abu Nasr told CNN that the strike started early on Thursday morning when he was preparing Sue Hall.
“My kids started screaming. I was scared as well because I lost my son just 40 days ago. He taught me martyr,” she said. “When we went outside, we realized that our relatives and neighbors were all martial artists.”
This story has been updated.
