the Israeli army announces that it has “resumed the fight” against Hamas – L’Express

The Israeli army announced that it had “resumed the fight” against Hamas after a truce already extended twice. This Friday, December 1, the IDF said it intercepted a rocket fire from Gaza.

⇒ The Israeli army has “resumed the fight” against Hamas.

⇒ A rocket fire from Gaza.

⇒ New releases of hostages.

The truce that came into force on November 24 between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip, expired Friday morning, and fighting resumed between the belligerents, according to AFP journalists on site. The truce expired at 7:00 a.m. local time (5:00 GMT). The Israeli army said in a statement that it had “resumed the fight against the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip”, while rocket warning sirens sounded in several Israeli localities close to this territory. In Gaza City, an AFP journalist reported dozens of Israeli artillery fire and airstrikes.

Six Palestinians were killed Friday morning in an Israeli air raid on Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, Ashraf al-Qidreh, spokesperson for the Hamas health ministry, told AFP. An assessment that no independent source is able to verify.

The Israeli army said Friday morning that it had intercepted a rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, shortly before the expiration of the truce with Hamas. The anti-aircraft defense system “successfully intercepted a shot from the Gaza Strip”, the Israeli army indicated in a message to the press a little over an hour before the expiration of this potentially renewable truce.

In the process, witnesses told AFP of intense flights of military planes and drones in the northwestern areas of Gaza City. The rocket attack has not yet been claimed. Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army clarified that this is the second rocket attack since the start of the truce on November 24, the first having occurred just a few minutes after this break, without derailing it.

Israeli officials had obtained Hamas’s plan for an unprecedented attack on Israel more than a year in advance, but deemed the scenario unrealistic, they said Thursday. the New York Times based on secret documents. Israeli military intelligence had got its hands on a document of around forty pages from the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas detailing, point by point, a vast attack like the one perpetrated by commandos on October 7 which left around 1,200 dead in Israel, according to the major American daily.

Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas released prisoners and hostages during the night from Thursday to Friday, a few hours before the expiration of their truce in the Gaza Strip. Six Israelis were released overnight by Hamas, after two others during the day, and returned to Israel, announced the services of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Among those released are dual nationals from Uruguay, Mexico and Russia, Qatar announced.

Thirty Palestinians, all women and minors detained in Israeli prisons, were released overnight from Thursday to Friday in accordance with the truce agreement between Israel and Hamas, the Israel Prisons Authority announced.