Gaza’s health ministry has said 14 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes since the truce expired this morning.
Reuters reports the figure provided by the Hamas-run ministry. Al Jazeera journalist Hind Khoudary had earlier said that at least six had been killed in an attack on a house in Rafah and in Khan Younis.
Another seven were also killed in the Maghazi area.
Israel has also been asking residents in certain neighbourhoods of Khan Younis to leave before an expected attack in the area.
“The Israeli forces are dropping leaflets for people in Khan Younis asking them to evacuate to Rafah but they are also targeting Rafah,” Khoudary said.
Qatar has confirmed that talks are continuing between Israel and Palestine with the aim of the ceasefire resuming.
Its ministry of foreign affairs posted a statement on X, saying: “The state of Qatar expresses its deep regret at the resumption of the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip following the end of the humanitarian pause, without reaching an agreement to extend it.
“The state of Qatar is committed, along with its mediation partners, to continuing the efforts that led to the humanitarian pause, and will not hesitate to do everything necessary to return to calm.”
It added: “The ministry stresses that the continued bombing of the Gaza Strip in the first hours after the end of the pause complicates mediation efforts and exacerbates the humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip, and in this context calls on the international community to move quickly to stop the violence.”
It went on to condemn the targeting of civilians, collective punishment and “attempts to forcibly displace citizens of the besieged Gaza Strip”.
Qatar had successfully brokered the agreement a week ago for the ceasefire to come into effect, which saw the release of hostages and prisoners.
Hamas said on Friday morning that Israel refused an offer to release more hostages and the bodies of an Israeli family killed in airstrikes. This has not been independently verified by the Guardian.
The al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said it had attacked Israeli cities and towns on Friday.
In a statement on Telegram, the militant group said it was in response to “crimes against our people”, according to Reuters.
Thirty-two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza since the truce expired on Friday morning, Ashraf Al-Qidra, the spokesperson for Gaza’s health ministry said on Friday, according to the ministry’s Telegram account.
The latest figures, reported by Reuters, follow Israeli jets firing on the Gaza Strip minutes after the truce expired on Friday.
The Unicef spokesperson James Elder has reported that an airstrike landed about 50 metres away from the “biggest still functioning hospital in Gaza”.
“This hospital simply cannot take more children with the wounds of war,” he says in a video posted on X. He pans briefly to children asleep on the floor of a hospital room. Elder is the chief of communications for Unicef. His post was accompanied with the caption: “Has humanity given up on the children of Gaza?”
“I cannot overstate how the capacity has been reduced in hospitals over the last seven weeks. We cannot see more children with the wounds of war, with the burns, the shrapnel littering their body, with their broken bones. Inaction from those with influence is allowing the killing of children. This is a war on children.”
Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has said that the Israeli military must “return and crush Gaza with all our might”.
In a post on X this morning, he said: “For the sake of the children who have not yet returned, for the murdered who will no longer return, so that the horrors of 7/10 will never return, we must return and crush Gaza with all our might, destroy Hamas and return to the Strip, without compromises, without deals. at maximum power.”
While the ceasefire has expired this morning, negotiations brokered by Qatar and Egypt with Israel and Hamas are continuing, Reuters reports.
Qatari and Egyptian mediators have been in contact with both sides since fighting resumed in Gaza on Friday, the source said.
Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, was seen speaking to the Qatari emir, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, at the Cop28 climate conference in Dubai.
Israel has been dropping leaflets into parts of southern Gaza, telling residents to leave.
Associated Press reports that they have been dropped in Khan Younis, a city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The leaflets warn that the city is now a “dangerous battle zone”. So far since the Israeli response to the Hamas terror attack has focused largely on the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Many had fled the north into the south, taking shelter in areas including Khan Younis.
It comes as fighting has resumed this morning in the Palestinian territory after the ceasefire, which had been in place since 24 November.
Gaza’s health ministry has said 14 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes since the truce expired this morning.
Reuters reports the figure provided by the Hamas-run ministry. Al Jazeera journalist Hind Khoudary had earlier said that at least six had been killed in an attack on a house in Rafah and in Khan Younis.
Another seven were also killed in the Maghazi area.
Israel has also been asking residents in certain neighbourhoods of Khan Younis to leave before an expected attack in the area.
“The Israeli forces are dropping leaflets for people in Khan Younis asking them to evacuate to Rafah but they are also targeting Rafah,” Khoudary said.
Here are images of Antony Blinken boarding a US military plane before his departure from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv on Friday.
On Thursday the US secretary of state had met Israeli and Palestinian officials and called for the temporary truce to be extended, as well as saying any resumption of combat must protect Palestinian civilians.
Blinken had told reporters in Tel Aviv of the seven-day pause in fighting:
Clearly, we want to see this process continue to move forward. We want an eighth day and beyond.
On his third trip to the Middle East since 7 October, Blinken also said the US remained committed to supporting Israel’s right to self-defence, but that Israel must protect civilians if it started major military operations in southern Gaza.
Israeli airstrikes have hit southern Gaza, including the community of Abassan east of the city of Khan Younis, the Hamas-run territory’s interior ministry said.
Another strike hit a home north-west of Gaza City, it said.
The strikes came as the Israeli military said its fighter jets hit Hamas targets in Gaza as the war resumed in full force after the weeklong truce expired, Associated Press reports.
Loud, continuous explosions were heard coming from Gaza and black smoke billowed from the territory on Friday morning.
In Israel, sirens blared at three communal farms near Gaza, warning of incoming rocket fire, suggesting Hamas had also resumed its attacks.
The Israeli military’s announcement of the strikes came just 30 minutes after the ceasefire expired at 7am (0500 GMT) on Friday.
Earlier Friday, Israel accused Hamas of having violated the terms of the ceasefire.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Hamas did not agree to release further hostages, infringing on the terms of the truce, and that Israel remained committed to achieving its objectives as fighting resumed.
Netanyahu’s office said on Friday that Hamas did not release all women captives as agreed and also launched rockets at Israel, Reuters reports.
His office said:
With the resumption of fighting we emphasise the Israeli government is committed to achieving the goals of the war: to free our hostages, to eliminate Hamas and to ensure that Gaza will never pose a threat to the residents of Israel.
Jason Burke in Jerusalem has filed a full report on the developments this morning:
The first images since the resumption of fighting in Gaza are coming though over the news wires:
Inside the Gaza Strip a journalist reported artillery fire in Gaza City and Israeli warplanes carrying out a series of strikes after the resumption of fighting.
The Agence France-Presse journalist also reported drones could be heard in the air over the south of the territory for the first time since the ceasefire.
The resumption of fighting dashed hopes for an extension of the seven-day truce that had seen a reported 105 hostages and 240 Palestinian prisoners released.
The ceasefire also allowed more aid into the ravaged Gaza Strip.
On Thursday, US secretary of state Antony Blinken had met Israeli and Palestinian officials and called for the pause in hostilities to be extended, as well as saying any resumption of combat must protect Palestinian civilians.
Israeli military warplanes are now attacking Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces has said on social media.
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