Hamas has launched several missiles on Israel – without causing personal or material damage – in what is his first response to the rupture of the truce that the Israeli government carried out on Tuesday, when. Since then, Israeli bombs have ended the life of, more than 90 only in the last hours. This Thursday’s attack is “a counterattack” in “self -defense”, has sustained in writing a high command of Hamas to questions from El País. The Minister of Defense of the Jewish State, Israel Katz, has ordered to continue intensifying military pressure until Hamas releases the hostages, in fact this Thursday have undertaken terrestrial operations at the north and south ends of the enclave.
The launch of the projectiles from the strip has not caused damage to Israel. But it is part of a new climb that directs the war towards the – the number of deaths in Gaza since October 2023 and the 50,000, most women and children – and that had given some respite during the eight weeks of high fire. At the same time, the possibility that, with the help of the mediating countries, progresses again towards a stop the fire that is increasingly complicated, although the negotiations have not been broken.
The Qasam Ezedín brigades (Hamas armed arm) have attacked Tel Aviv, the main Israeli city, with “a shower of rockets in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians,” according to the group in a statement. The Israeli army has reported that, of the three releases made from the south of the strip, it has managed to intercept one, while the other two have fallen into open areas.
The Army has subsequently issued new orders of forced displacement – it had already imposed other these days – the population that lives in that southern area. “This is a last warning before the attack,” says spokesman Achichay Adraee from the Arabic profile of the social networks of Israeli troops while accusing Hamas of using civil areas to launch rockets. The army has published the names and positions of several controls of the Palestinian resistance to which he claims to have killed in the last hours.
The alarms against possible impacts sound at noon in the environment of Tel Aviv claiming the population to be covered. In social networks, images of some remains of the M90 model missiles have been shown that the Qasam Ezedín brigades claim to have used together with inhabited areas, as in Rishon Lezion, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
Advanced in the afternoon, the Hutí guerrillas has launched a ballistic missile from Yemen to Israel, which, according to the army, has been intercepted while the alarms sound again, this time in a broader area that covers from Tel Aviv, on the Mediterranean coast, to the border with Jordan passing through Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Shortly before Hamas’s attack, Israeli occupation troops had announced that they returned to. Thus, they have extended their offensive with infantry, combat cars and armored in the north of the strip, according to the images that come from there, where the authorities of the Jewish state prevent access to journalists. The Army has confirmed that, with the collaboration of secret services, it has undertaken a new land operation on the north of the enclave, in the area of the town of Beit Lahia. The objective, according to a military statement, are the Hamas anti -tank missile launch platforms. Hours later, they have reported another operation on the ground in Rafah, at the southern end, next to the border with Egypt.
In parallel, the military maintains the attacks on other areas of Gaza in an attempt, as recognized by the prime minister, to force the Islamist group to free the hostages that remain in the strip. Most of those more than 90 Gazatis dead in the last hours have perished for bombing carried out on what Israel considers “terrorist” infrastructure.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, “fully supports the Israeli offensive in Gaza both for air and land, has responded by the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, who has taken the opportunity to once again blame the current climbing to the Palestinian Islamist group.
UN victims
Among the fatalities of the Israeli offensive of this week are five employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA, its acronym in English), as reported by its headquarters, Philippe Lazzarini. That elevates A, the main humanitarian support of the Gazati, during the current war.
The governments of Qatar and Egypt, two of the intermediary countries with the United States, try to preserve the diplomatic route and recover the path of the high fire that Israel made jumping through the air. The Prime Minister and Head of the Catarí diplomacy, Mohamed al Thani, has talked by telephone with the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelatty, to try to find roads that allow to return to Israel and Hamas to the three -phase agreement that both parties accepted in January and with which the contest was intended to end, according to a statement from the Qatar authorities.
Both countries also insist on promoting the route of reconstruction for Gaza worth about 53,000 million dollars (about 49,000 million euros) outlined by Arab countries and that, unlike what is proposed by Washington and the Jewish state, does not provide for the deportation of the Palestinians of the Strip. The statement does not refer to the third facilitating country, the United States, the main ally of Israel, whom Hamas accuses of being an accomplice of the rupture of the truce after he was warned and gave his approval to the bombings of this week.
Outrage of hostage families
The main forum that groups the families of the Israeli hostages that Hamas retains in Gaza has expressed their anger and outrage on Thursday. They feel none by Netanyahu, who have been asking for a meeting for weeks and whose decision to resume high intensity war considers that it is incompatible with the agreed release of the captives. But the prime minister has not said “not a word”, according to a statement from that forum published by Israeli media. In the strip there are still 59 hostages, of which more than half have already been given by dead.
The surroundings of the residence of the Prime Minister in Jerusalem have become a scenario of disturbances this Thursday: police officers have tried to prevent the protest marches that demand the end of the war, which comes out of power the ultra -right -wing coalition that leads the government and the agreed return of the hostages.
One of the pillars of the Plan of Alto El Fuego was precisely the release of the hostages, when the war with the massacre led by Hamas began in which some 1,200 people were killed in Israeli territory. In fact, during the first of these three phases, in January and February, several exchanges of captives were carried out by Palestinian prisoners who were interrupted when Netanyahu decided to block the passage to the second phase, which should have started in the first week of March. At that point it was planned that, in addition to the return of all the kidnapped, the end of the contest arrived, something that the partners of the government coalition never accepted. These required Netanyahu to resume the bombings if he wanted to continue in his position as Prime Minister, as he has finally done.
