Israel has killed 200 children in three days in Gaza.

The Israeli army launches a ground offensive in the north and south of the Strip after bombings that have left nearly 600 dead since Tuesday.

CairoThe Israeli army has already killed at least 591 people in Gaza, including 200 minors, since On Tuesday, he unilaterally broke the ceasefire agreed with Hamas. and resumed large-scale attacks against the Strip, according to the latest data released by the local Ministry of Health. The two main mediators between Israel and Hamas, Egypt and Qatar, have redoubled efforts to return to the truce, but Tel Aviv expanded its troop deployment in the enclave on Thursday, and the Palestinian group responded for the first time with a limited series of rocket fire.

During the night of Wednesday and early Thursday, the Israeli air force launched a new wave of bombings against multiple locations in Gaza, causing at least 95 deaths and more than 130 injuries, according to local health authorities, who claim that there are Rupas victims trapped. The Strip's civil protection corps warned that it is having difficulty carrying out rescues due to a lack of equipment. So far, most of the nearly 600 deaths caused by Israeli attacks have been recorded in the governorates of Gaza in the north and Rafah in the south, and the percentage of children, women, and elderly deaths exceeds 70% of the total number of victims since Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health.

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A video of one of these latest Israeli bombings released on social media shows a father holding his two- or three-year-old son dead in his arms. "He was my only son, born by fertilization." in vitro"He was playing with his friends in the square," the man shouts. In another video also posted on social media, a mother appears crying saying that her baby, killed by Israeli bombs, will be cold in the morgue. The director of hospitals at the centers thousands of seriously injured in the last three days. In a video released by the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Zaqout emphasizes that all hospitals are full and that they face a very complicated situation due to the lack of medicines and equipment, such as X-ray machines.

This Thursday morning, the Israeli army reported that it had launched ground operations near the coast near Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, one of the most devastated parts of the Strip. A military spokesman, Avichay Adraee, announced a ban on traffic on the territory's main road, which runs north to south, and stated that travel would only be permitted on a coastal road. During the evening, the army reported that it had also launched a ground operation in Rafah, in the south.

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On Wednesday, the army announced an expansion of the areas in central and southern Gaza that it has continued to occupy during the truce, and reported that it had redeployed forces along an axis, Netzarim, that divides the enclave in two. Israel also ordered the forced evacuation of 13 neighborhoods in northern Gaza on Tuesday, and on Thursday, it extended the orders to several points in Khan Yunis, in the south of the enclave.

Attacks on aid workers

Among the hundreds of deaths caused by three days of Israel's offensive in Gaza are five workers from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, according to its director, Philippe Lazzarini. Since the start of the war, the Israeli army has killed 284 UNRWA members, most of them teachers, doctors, and nurses. On Wednesday, the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) also announced the death of one of its workers.

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In parallel, Hamas's armed wing, the Al Qassam Brigades, announced this Thursday at noon the launching of several rockets towards Tel Aviv in response to Israel's "massacres." The Israeli army reported the identification of three projectiles, two of which were intercepted. This is the first time Hamas has attacked Israel since the ceasefire was broken and Israeli attacks resumed.

Hours earlier, in the early morning, the Israeli army warned of a rocket being launched from Yemen, but claimed it had been intercepted before entering Israeli territory. Yahya Sarea, the military spokesman for Yemen's Houthi movement, claimed responsibility for the attack and declared that the target was Tel Aviv airport. Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Hamas's armed wing, expressed his gratitude for the attack and called for support for Gaza.

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Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, hundreds of people demonstrated Thursday outside the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to demand that he resume the ceasefire and exchange hostages.

Qatar and Egypt, the two main mediators of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, have stepped up diplomatic moves in recent days in a desperate attempt to restore the truce. On Thursday, the foreign ministers of both countries held a phone call and called for intensified joint efforts to resume implementation of the ceasefire in the three phases agreed upon in January, according to a statement. Israel and Hamas fulfilled the first phase of the agreement, but Tel Aviv refused to move forward with the next stage and has since attempted to negotiate a new roadmap.

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