Israeli airstrikes have shattered a ceasefire agreement from January, killing 400 Palestinians in a matter of hours
Israel resumed heavy airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, reportedly killing over 400 Palestinians and shattering a tenuous ceasefire agreement that was signed in January. Many families were just beginning to prepare their pre-dawn Ramadan meals as missiles descended from the sky.
Gaza’s hospitals, decimated by Israeli bombardment over the past 17 months, quickly filled up with the wounded, dead and dying.
“The [emergency room] was just chaos, patients everywhere on the floor. There were probably three men and the rest were all children, women, elderly, everybody caught in their sleep, still wrapped in blankets. Terrifying. A level of horror and evil that its really hard to articulate. It felt like Armageddon,” one doctor told CNN.
While the preceding two months were punctuated by deadly Israeli strikes, Tuesday’s offensive definitively marks a return to a war that has left Gaza’s 2 million inhabitants in a humanitarian crisis and wiped out entire families. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Tuesday’s strikes were only the start of what’s to come.
« This follows Hamas’s repeated refusal to release our hostages, as well as its rejection of all of the proposals it has received from U.S. Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and from the mediators », Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
