{"id":45568,"date":"2025-03-18T08:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=45568"},"modified":"2025-03-18T08:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:43:52","slug":"heavy-israel-strikes-in-gaza-kill-at-least-250-palestinian-health-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=45568","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Israel strikes in Gaza kill at least 250, Palestinian health authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Reuters) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAIRO\/JERUSALEM, March 18 – Israeli air strikes\u00a0pounded Gaza<\/a>, killing 254 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, and threatening a complete collapse of a two-month ceasefire as it vowed to use force to free its remaining hostages in the strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said he had instructed the military to take “strong action” against the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza in response to the group’s refusal to release hostages held there and rejection of ceasefire proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After heavy strikes, the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for a number of neighbourhoods in Gaza, according to a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamas, meanwhile, accused Israel of overturning the hard-fought ceasefire deal, leaving the fate of 59 hostages still held in Gaza uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel’s renewed intense pressure on Hamas came as tensions flared elsewhere in the Middle East, a major supplier of oil to global markets, which has seen the Gaza war spread to Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday<\/a> he would hold Iran responsible for any further attacks on international shipping carried out by the Houthi group, as his administration expanded strikes in Yemen, the biggest U.S. military operation in the region since he returned to the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strikes in Gaza were reported in multiple locations. Palestinian health ministry officials said many of the dead were children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Israeli military said it hit dozens of targets, and that the attacks would continue for as long as necessary and extend beyond air strikes, raising the prospect that Israeli ground troops could resume fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attacks were far wider in scale than the regular drone strikes Israel has said it has conducted recently against individuals or small groups of suspected militants, and follows weeks of failed efforts to agree an extension to the truce agreed on January 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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