Credit: <\/span>Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\nColumns of smoke rose into the sky as residents took to the road with belongings heaped up in carts, fleeing for shelter further west.<\/p>\n
In the north of the enclave, previously the main war zone, huge plumes of smoke rose above the ruins, seen from across the fence in Israel. The rattle of gunfire and thud of explosions rang out above the sound of barking dogs.<\/p>\n
Sirens blared across southern Israel as militants fired rockets from the coastal enclave into towns.<\/p>\n
Israel and Hamas accused each other of wrecking the negotiations, though the White House singled out the Palestinian militant group, saying it had failed to produce a new list of hostages to release to enable an extension of the truce.<\/p>\n
The UN said the fighting would worsen an extreme humanitarian emergency.<\/p>\n
\u201cHell on Earth has returned to Gaza,\u201d Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN humanitarian office in Geneva, said.<\/p>\n
Within hours of the truce expiring, Gaza health officials reported that 109 people had been killed and dozens wounded in air strikes.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s military said its ground, air and naval forces had struck more than 200 what it called \u201cterror targets\u201d in the enclave since the morning.<\/p>\n
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said he had been in one of Israel\u2019s war jets during the assault to watch it up close. \u201cThe results are impressive. Hamas only understands force and therefore we will continue to act until we achieve the goals of the war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Rockets are fired from Gaza into Israel on Friday.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\nEgyptian and regional sources told Reuters that Israel had informed several Arab states that it wants to carve out a buffer zone on the Palestinian side of Gaza\u2019s border to prevent future attacks as part of proposals for the enclave after war ends.<\/p>\n
Medics and witnesses said Friday\u2019s bombing was most intense in Khan Yunis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of Gazans have been sheltering from fighting further north. Houses in central and northern areas were also hit.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnas, my son!\u201d cried the mother of Anas Anwar al-Masri, a boy lying on a stretcher with a head injury in the corridor of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. \u201cI don\u2019t have anyone but you!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018You have been warned\u2019<\/h3>\n
Further south in Rafah, residents carried several small children, streaked with blood and covered in dust, out of a house that had been struck. Mohammed Abu-Elneen, whose father owns the house, said it was sheltering people displaced from elsewhere.<\/p>\n
At the nearby Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital, the first wave of wounded were men and boys.<\/p>\n
Gazans said they feared that the bombing of southern parts of the enclave could herald an expansion of the war into areas Israel had previously described as safe.<\/p>\n
Leaflets dropped on eastern areas of the main southern city Khan Younis ordered residents of four towns to evacuate \u2013 not to other areas in Khan Younis as in the past, but further south to the crowded town of Rafah on the Egyptian border.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to evacuate immediately and go to the shelters in the Rafah area. Khan Younis is a dangerous fighting zone. You have been warned,\u201d said the leaflets, written in Arabic.<\/p>\n
Israel released a link to a map showing Gaza divided into hundreds of districts, which it said would be used in future to communicate which areas were safe.<\/p>\n
On another faultline, a Lebanese official said Israeli shelling killed two people in south Lebanon on Friday. The Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, said it had also carried out several attacks on Israeli military positions at the border in support of Palestinians.<\/p>\n
The Israeli army said its artillery struck sources of fire from Lebanon and air defences had intercepted two launches. Reuters could not confirm any of the battlefield accounts.<\/p>\n
Blinken blames Hamas for truce ending<\/h3>\n
Each of the warring sides blamed the other for causing the collapse of the truce by rejecting terms to extend the daily release of hostages held by militants in exchange for Palestinian detainees.<\/p>\n
The pause, which began on November 24, had been extended twice, and Israel had said it could continue as long as Hamas released 10 hostages each day. But after seven days during which women, children and foreign hostages were freed, Qatari and Egyptian mediators failed at the final hour to find a formula to release more, including Israeli soldiers and civilian men.<\/p>\n
Israel accused Hamas of refusing to release all the women it held. A Palestinian official said the breakdown occurred over female Israeli soldiers.<\/p>\n
Qatar said negotiations were still going on with Israel and Hamas to restore the truce, but that Israel\u2019s renewed bombardment of Gaza had complicated its efforts.<\/p>\n
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, ending a trip to the region, said Hamas had started firing rockets before the pause in hostilities ended and had \u201creneged on commitments it made in terms of releasing certain hostages\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added he had met officials from Arab states and discussed how to create a \u201cdurable, lasting and secure peace\u201d.<\/p>\n
Israel has sworn to annihilate Hamas in response to the October 7 rampage by the militant group, when Israel says gunmen killed 1200 people and took 240 hostages.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s assault has laid waste to much of the Gaza Strip, which Hamas has ruled since 2007.<\/p>\n
Palestinian health authorities deemed reliable by the United Nations say more than 15,000 Gazans have been confirmed killed and thousands more are missing and feared buried under rubble.<\/p>\n
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