Israel's warplanes pounded Gaza, sending wounded and dead Palestinians into hospitals and residents into the streets to flee, as its war against Hamas resumed after talks to extend a week-old truce broke down.

As the deadline lapsed, Reuters journalists in Khan Younis in southern Gaza saw eastern areas come under intensive bombardment, sending columns of smoke rising into the sky. Residents took to the road with belongings heaped up in carts, fleeing for shelter further west.

In the north of the enclave, previously the main war zone, huge plumes of smoke rose above the ruins, seen from across the fence in Israel. The rattle of gunfire and thud of explosions rang out above the sound of barking dogs.

Rocket sirens also blared across southern Israel as militants fired from the coastal enclave into towns.

Within hours of the truce expiring, Gaza health officials reported that 54 people had already been killed and dozens wounded in air strikes that hit at least eight homes.

  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
    118·
    1 year ago

    Early Friday, shortly before the truce was set to end, Israel’s military said on the social media site X that it had intercepted a projectile fired from Gaza. Automated rocket alert systems reported that air-raid sirens had sounded in several areas of southern Israel, indicating rockets or shells had been fired from the territory.

    Then, just after the 7 a.m. deadline passed, both the Israeli military and Gaza’s Interior Ministry reported that Israel was carrying out strikes across Gaza. Air-raid sirens sounded in several parts of southern Israel, indicating that Hamas or allied armed groups in Gaza had fired toward Israel.

    https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/30/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news

    This is a detail from the New York Times article that people might find relevant. Rockets were fired from Gaza before the ceasefire had expired, and Israel retaliated immediately after the 7am deadline. Make of that what you will.

    • GeneralVincent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      1 year ago

      Israel said that? I believe it 100% then, they’ve never lied especially on their social media. Oh hey, is that that same official Israel account that posted the fake hamas.com website as if it was real? The one that was cartoonishly evil with Hamas Testimonials, all written in English, and hosted on an Israeli server?

      There are plenty of examples of misinformation shared by both Palestinian supporters and the Israeli government so I’ll believe this if it can be verified by a third party

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      It’s possible it was hamas, it’s also possible it was just some randoms. Equally possible it was mosad.

      But regardless of who it was. It was definitely Israel making more unforced errors.

      • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
        63·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think it’s equally likely to have been a false flag, actually.

        It is amusing though how openly you admit that, regardless of any facts at all, you’re still going to blame Israel. You’ll be more convincing if you at least pretend to not have a fixed position.

        • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          44·
          1 year ago

          Gee, I said it could have been Hamas or any other number of groups. Yet you call me the one with a fixed position. Only blaming Israel. Project much?

          It’s bad form to accuse others of lacking the facts. When your accusations themselves are off outside of the known facts.

          • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
            44·
            1 year ago

            You said it was equally possible that it was an Israeli false flag as it being Hamas, which is completely divorced from any analysis of the facts or history at all.

            Or you think that three possibilities implies a 33.3% chance of each one being true, but I assume you have a better understanding of statistics than a child.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        85·
        1 year ago

        . It’s possible it was hamas

        Hamas has broken every ceasefire and truce ever penned, so yeah it was most assuredly Hamas.