{"id":14234,"date":"2025-03-18T04:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T04:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=14234"},"modified":"2025-03-18T04:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T04:05:20","slug":"israel-launches-gaza-strikes-in-biggest-attack-since-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=14234","title":{"rendered":"Israel launches Gaza strikes in biggest attack since ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\">Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=880503da-a915-4fe5-ad5e-deab8a00b669&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Israel has launched \u201cextensive strikes\u201d in Gaza, saying it was hitting Hamas targets in what appeared to be the most intense assault on the enclave since a ceasefire took effect in January.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office, in a post on X, said that the country\u2019s military launched the attacks after the Palestinian militant group\u2019s \u201crepeated refusal to release our hostages\u201d and \u201crejection of all of the proposals it has received from US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and from the mediators\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength,\u201d Netanyahu\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said 131 people were killed in the Israeli air strikes overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli attacks came amid a renewed flare-up in tensions across the region, including US military strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen ordered by President Donald Trump in recent days. <\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration said it had been consulted by Israel ahead of the strikes on Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs President Trump has made clear, Hamas, the Houthis, Iran, all those who seek to terrorise not just Israel but also the United States of America will see a price to pay,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The first stage of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which involved the return of Israeli hostages in Gaza in exchange for Israel\u2019s release of Palestinian prisoners, ended on March 1. <\/p>\n<p>International mediators including the US have been trying to extend the truce and secure the release of the remaining hostages held by the militant group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamas could have released hostages to extend the ceasefire, but instead chose refusal and war,\u201d Brian Hughes, a spokesperson for the US National Security Council, told the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p>Witkoff, Trump\u2019s Middle East envoy, told CBS on Sunday that \u201cthe recent experience we had with Hamas\u2019s response was not encouraging\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWe put a very sensible proposal on the table that was intended as a bridge to get to a final discussion and final resolution here that would have incorporated some sort of demilitarization of Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On March 2, Israel halted all aid shipments into Gaza and threatened to cut off the territory\u2019s water and electricity supply.<\/p>\n<p>Trump warned Hamas early this month that \u201cit is OVER for you\u201d unless the group released the remaining hostages, adding that he was \u201csending Israel everything it needs to finish the job\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a single Hamas member will be safe,\u201d Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. \u201cThis is your last warning!\u201d he added. \u201cRELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW, OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Israel returned to the negotiating table last week, dispatching a team to Doha for the first talks since Trump took office, after direct talks between Washington and Hamas stalled. Talks are being mediated by the US, Qatar and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s military action also came after Netanyahu removed Ronen Bar, the head of Israel\u2019s domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet, and David Barnea, the director of foreign spy agency Mossad, from his country\u2019s negotiating team. <\/p>\n<p>The prime minister claimed the intelligence chiefs, who had helped broker the ceasefire along with officials under the Biden and Trump administrations including Witkoff, were negotiating too softly.<\/p>\n<p>On the presidential campaign trail last year, Trump promised US voters that he would bring peace to the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>Oil prices were steady on Tuesday during Asian trading, with Brent crude futures, the international benchmark, edging up 0.3 per cent to $71.26 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, rose 0.3 per cent to $67.78 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz in Washington and William Sandlund in Hong Kong<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/880503da-a915-4fe5-ad5e-deab8a00b669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - 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