Truce returns to Gaza after IDF raid with over a hundred dead, almost half of them children

Finally, the director of the Shifa hospital, Mohammed Abu Selmia, said that the hospital had received 21 more bodies of victims of the attacks, including seven women and six children.

Data are missing from the fifth hospital in the Strip.

Medici senza frontiere oggi nella Striscia di Gaza ha prestato soccorso a centinaia di pazienti gravemente feriti durante gli attacchi delle forze israeliane, negli ospedali Al Aqsa, Nasser e Al Shifa. “Quando sono arrivato al pronto soccorso, la situazione era disperata. Non c’è dubbio che si tratti di un attacco contro i civili, con così tanti bambini feriti e uccisi. Possiamo davvero chiamarlo cessate il fuoco?” dichiara Morten Rostrup, medico di Msf in azione presso l’ospedale Al-Aqsa dove sono stati assistiti 77 feriti, alcuni dei quali poi trasferiti all’ospedale da campo. “Una donna, con una ferita alla testa e alla gamba, era in stato di shock a causa di una forte emorragia. C’era un’altra donna con una lesione cerebrale e un’altra ancora con una lesione polmonare. Ho visto anche 3 bambini gravemente feriti”, aggiunge Rostrup.

As of 10 a.m. this morning (9 a.m. Italian time), the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is once again in force, Israeli military sources confirmed to the Times of Israel, after a night of intense shelling on the Palestinian enclave. The attacks, according to the same sources, were conducted in response to "ceasefire violations by Hamas", including the killing of Israeli soldiers in Rafah, in southern Gaza. The Israeli army also accuses the Islamist movement of "failing to return the bodies of the 13 hostages still being held".

The Israeli army said it had reinstated the ceasefire in Gaza after carrying out a series of attacks. "Following a series of attacks, in which dozens of terrorist targets were hit in response to Hamas violations, the Idf began enforcing the ceasefire again," the army said. "As part of the attacks, the Idf and Isa hit 30 terrorists who held command positions within the terrorist organisations operating in the Gaza Strip," it added.

Hamas releases names of two dead Israeli hostages

The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, claimed on Telegram to have recovered the bodies of two deceased Israeli prisoners, Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch, during search operations conducted today.

There are still 13 hostage bodies in Gaza. Hamas had earlier claimed to have recovered the body of one of the abductees but, after Israel began attacking Gaza, the group said it would delay the handover.

The chief of staff of the IDF (Israel Defence Forces), Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, stated that Israel "will not remain silent" in the face of violations of the ceasefire agreement by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist movement "had pledged to return the bodies of the remaining hostages, but it is violating its commitment. We saw this again last night. We are familiar with the nature of this organisation: an organisation founded on terror, deception and betrayal," Zamir said during a ceremony in honour of the best civilian employees of the IDF, "We will not remain silent in the face of this; we will continue to act to bring back all our hostages for a dignified burial: it is our moral and ethical duty.