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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel's subject said Wednesday the ceasefire was backmost on successful Gaza aft it carried retired dense airstrikes crossed the Palestinian territory that killed astatine slightest 81 people, including women and children, according to section hospitals.
The strikes — the deadliest since the ceasefire was enacted connected Oct. 10 — marked the astir superior situation to the tenuous truce to date.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said helium had ordered the subject to behaviour “powerful strikes” implicit Gaza aft accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire. Hamas said successful effect that it would hold handing implicit the assemblage of different hostage.
U.S. President Donald Trump, presently connected a travel to Asia, defended the strikes, saying Israel was justified successful carrying them retired aft what helium said was an incidental successful which Hamas killed an Israeli worker during an speech of gunfire successful Rafah, the southernmost metropolis successful Gaza.
Hamas denied immoderate engagement successful that deadly shooting and, successful turn, accused Israel of violating the ceasefire deal.
Mounting decease toll successful Gaza
Mohammed Abu Selmia, manager of Shifa Hospital successful Gaza City, said the decease toll was apt to emergence further arsenic galore of the 45 who were being treated astatine the infirmary — including 20 children — were successful captious condition.
He said the infirmary received 21 bodies, including 7 women and six children. That's connected apical of the astatine slightest 60 radical who were reported killed earlier.
First, the Aqsa Hospital successful Gaza's cardinal metropolis of Deir al-Balah reported astatine slightest 10 bodies, among them 3 women and six children. Their bodies reached the infirmary overnight aft 2 Israeli airstrikes there. In confederate Gaza, the Nasser Hospital successful Khan Younis said it received 20 bodies aft 5 Israeli strikes successful the area, of which 13 were children and 2 were women.
Elsewhere successful cardinal Gaza, the Al-Awda Hospital said it received 30 bodies, including 14 children.
According to officials from the 4 Gaza hospitals who spoke to The Associated Press, the fig of children killed successful the strikes overnight has reached 39.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's order
Netanyahu's bid to motorboat strikes came aft an Israeli authoritative said its forces were fired upon successful confederate Gaza and aft Hamas handed implicit assemblage parts connected Monday that Israel said were the partial remains of a hostage recovered earlier successful the war.
The Israeli premier curate called the instrumentality of these assemblage parts a “clear violation” of the ceasefire agreement, which requires Hamas to instrumentality the remaining hostages successful Gaza arsenic soon arsenic possible. Israeli officials besides accused Hamas of staging the find of these remains connected Monday, sharing a 14-minute edited video captured by a subject drone successful Gaza.
Israel notified the United States earlier launching the strikes connected Tuesday, according to 2 U.S. officials who spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon the subject.
The Israeli subject said its forces struck “30 terrorists holding bid positions wrong violent organizations” operating wrong the Palestinian territory.
Later, it said Israeli forces would proceed to uphold the ceasefire statement but would “respond firmly” to immoderate usurpation of the deal.
Trump says Israel 'should deed back'
Trump told journalists aboard Air Force One connected Wednesday that Israel “should deed back” erstwhile its troops travel nether attack.
But helium said he's inactive assured the ceasefire would withstand the escalation successful unit due to the fact that “Hamas is simply a precise tiny portion of the wide Middle East peace. And they person to behave.” If not, they volition beryllium “terminated,” Trump added.
An Israeli subject authoritative said Wednesday that the worker was killed by “enemy fire” connected Tuesday day targeting his conveyance successful Rafah. The authoritative spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon confidential subject operations.
The authoritative said Israeli troops successful the country came nether onslaught galore times Tuesday arsenic they worked to destruct tunnels and Hamas infrastructure. Israel identified the worker who was killed arsenic Master Sgt. Yona Efraim Feldbaum, 37.
Hamas insisted it was not progressive successful the Rafah gunfire and reiterated its committedness to the ceasefire.
“The convulsive strikes carried retired by Israel crossed the portion is simply a blatant usurpation of the ceasefire deal,” said the militant group, calling connected mediators to unit Israel to stop.
Gaza hospitals effort to header with casualties
Ambulances and tiny trucks carrying bodies crowded infirmary entrances overnight crossed Gaza. In Deir Al-Balah, bodies were wheeled successful connected stretchers, and others carried successful connected mattresses. One antheral walked into the infirmary carrying the assemblage of a young child.
“They struck close adjacent to us, and we saw each the rubble connected apical of america and our young ones,” said a pistillate lasting extracurricular of the hospital.
At dawn, displaced Palestinians astatine the campy cleared remains of a destroyed structure adjacent to a crater wherever the onslaught hit. They recovered the assemblage of a tiny kid and wrapped it successful a blanket.
“What benignant of a ceasefire is this?” Amna Qrinawi, a survivor, asked.
Boak reported from Tokyo. Associated Press writers Kareem Chehayeb successful Beirut, and Julia Frankel, Josef Federman and Renata Brito successful Jerusalem contributed to this report
