以色列进行种族清洗，大杀加萨妇孺343人，惨！ Death toll soars past 300 as Israel launches massive airstrikes across Gaza In-Depth Coverage Iran Press TV Tuesday, 18 March 2025 4:21 AM The
Israeli military has killed at least 342 Palestinians, mostly children
and women, throughout the Gaza Strip's entire expanse during a
large-scale violation of Tel Aviv's ceasefire agreement with the
Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas. Reports said those killed in
included at least 77 people in Khan Younis in southern Gaza and at
least 20 people in Gaza City in the north. Hundred of others were also wounded during the rampant bloodletting, Palestinian news agency Sama reported on Tuesday. According
to the agency, the raids did not spare any part of the already
war-battered and mostly devastated coastal sliver, targeting residential
structures, schools, and refugee centers. Reporting on the fresh
deadly escalation, Qatar's Al Jazeera television network reported that
explosions had rang out throughout Gaza's northeastern areas, where the
regime's spy aircraft and warplanes have been engaging in extensive
overflight. The ceasefire took effect in January in the hope of
ending the regime's 15-month-plus war of genocide against Gaza that
began after Hamas and its fellow resistance groups from the Palestinian
territory launched a historic operation against the occupied Palestinian
territories. The operation saw the fighters venture deep inside
the territories, encircling strategic Israeli bases and ensnaring 240
Zionists, including some American-Israelis. Since initiation of
the ceasefire deal, the regime has been routinely violating it besides
blocking the entry of vital aid items into Gaza, including foodstuffs,
medicine, and water, in an attempt to pressure Hamas into releasing
those of the captives, who remained in the group's captivity, in one
batch. Hamas has released 25 living captives and the remains of
eight others in exchange for more than 2,000 Palestinian prisoners
during the implementation of the first phase of the deal. The
movement has denounced Tel Aviv's efforts at sabotaging the agreement,
urging that release of the remaining captives is conditioned upon
implementation of a second phase. Earlier, the regime's Ma'ariv
newspaper reported, citing its sources, that Tel Aviv had turned down a
proposal for, what it called, "selective release" of the American
captives. The sources said the regime has told the United States
that diplomatic efforts towards enabling release of the remaining
captives had ended. They also said the regime's so-called
"security cabinet" had allowed its prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
minister for military affairs Israel Katz to determine the time for
resumption of the genocide. Netanyahu's office, meanwhile, alleged
that the regime had resumed its military attacks on Gaza after, what it
termed as, Hamas' turning down Washington's proposals for extension of
the ceasefire. This is while Hamas has been constantly engaging
with Qatari and Egyptian mediators towards keeping up the ceasefire,
despite the disruptive Israeli efforts. More than 48,000
Palestinians, most of them women and children, have perished during the
genocide in addition to hundreds more who have been killed as a result
of the Israeli violations of the deal. Trump's green light The
White House says Israel consulted with US President Donald Trump's
administration before launching its overnight wave of strikes in Gaza. "The
Trump administration and the White House were consulted by the Israelis
on their attacks in Gaza tonight," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
said. Hamas: Israel exposes captives to 'unknown fate' Reacting
to the most recent massacres, Hamas voiced reprehension over Netanyahu
and his "Nazi" administration's resuming their aggression and genocidal
war against defenseless civilians in the Gaza Strip. "We hold the
criminal Netanyahu and the Nazi-Zionist occupation fully responsible for
the repercussions of the treacherous aggression on Gaza, and for the
defenseless civilians and our besieged Palestinian people, who are
subjected to a brutal war and a systematic policy of starvation," it
added. The regime, the group lamented, had decided to "overturn the ceasefire," exposing the captives to an "unknown fate." Hamas
has previously reported the death of scores of the captives as a result
of incessant and indiscriminate Israeli bombardments of Gaza. "We
demand that the mediators hold Netanyahu and the Zionist occupation
fully responsible for violating and overturning the agreement," the
group asserted. Hamas also urged the Arab world, including its
major institutions, as well as notable international organizations to
take a firms stance concerning the aggression. The United Nations
and its Security Council has to press Tel Aviv into abiding by the UNSC
Resolution that mandates an end to the Israeli aggression against Gaza
and complete withdrawal of all Israeli forces from the territory, the
group underscored. It finally called for global protests, urging
that "the free people of the world have to raise their voice in
rejection of the resumption of the Zionist war of extermination against
our people in the Gaza Strip." Netanyahu's lifeline to escape internal crises Senior
Hamas official Izzat al-Rishq said, "Netanyahu has decided to resume
the genocidal war, considering it a lifeline to escape his internal
crises." "The enemy will not achieve through war and destruction what it failed to achieve through negotiations." He
added that, "Mediators are required to reveal the truth about
Netanyahu's betrayal of the ceasefire agreement and to hold him solely
responsible for fueling the fire in Gaza and the region." Al-Rishq asserted that, "Military pressure and brutal aggression will not break the will of our people and our resistance."
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