Live: Israel kills more than 430 Palestinians on Tuesday
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Israel launched a surprise wave of attacks on the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Tuesday, killing at least 205 Palestinians, in a unilateral end of its ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
Live footage by Al Jazeera showed children and babies among those killed and wounded, as attacks targeted multiple areas across the enclave, including northern Gaza, Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has instructed the military to take "strong action" against Hamas in Gaza, accusing the group of refusing to release captives and rejecting all ceasefire proposals.
"Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength," the prime minister's office said in a statement.
The Israeli military said it is prepared to continue attacks on Gaza for as long as needed and would expand the campaign beyond air strikes.
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Israeli strikes killed at least 200 people across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Khalil Al-Deqran, a spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, told Reuters.
Israel's ambassador to the UN said the country would should "no mercy" as it broke the ceasefire and resumed attacks on Gaza, killing at least 200.
"The Security Council will convene tomorrow to discuss the situation in Gaza," Danny Danon said on Tuesday morning.
"It is time for the countries of the world to take seriously our unwavering commitment to bring back all our hostages home and defeat the enemy.
"We will show no mercy against our enemies while our hostages languish in Hamas terror tunnels."
The Security Council will convene tomorrow to discuss the situation in Gaza.
— Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון (@dannydanon) March 18, 2025
It is time for the countries of the world to take seriously our unwavering commitment to bring back all our hostages home and defeat the enemy.
Nothing will stop us from fighting to free our hostages… pic.twitter.com/2srdDDi5yu
Israeli gunfire has killed a 25-year-old man and wounded three others in the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian health officials cited by Haaretz.
Yemen's Houthis have said that they will return to active support for Palestinians until Israel stop its "aggression" against Gaza and lifts the siege on the enclave.
At least 199 people were killed by Israel's wave of attacks on Tuesday morning, Al Jazeera has reported, as the death toll continues to rise.
More than 107 of them were located south of the Gaza Strip, according to medics.
The death toll of Palestinians killed by Israel's morning strikes on Gaza has risen to at least 131 people, Al Jazeera reported, citing medical sources.
At least 77 of those killed were in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, while at least 20 people were killed in Gaza City in the north.
Hamas said in a statement that Israel had resumed its "genocidal war against defenceless civilians in the Gaza Strip".
"Netanyahu and his extremist government have decided to overturn the ceasefire agreement, exposing the [Israeli] prisoners in Gaza to an unknown fate," Hamas said on Tuesday morning.
"We demand that the mediators hold Netanyahu and the Zionist occupation fully responsible for violating and overturning the agreement."
It called on the Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to "assume their historical responsibility in supporting the steadfastness and valiant resistance of our Palestinian people, and in breaking the unjust siege imposed on the Gaza Strip".
It also called on the UN to "convene urgently to adopt a resolution obligating the occupation to halt its aggression and abide by Resolution 2735, which calls for an end to the aggression and withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip".
Israeli air strikes have been reported in multiple locations across Gaza, as Israel broke the weeks-long fragile ceasefire and launched a wave of attacks on Palestinians in the enclave.
Strikes were reported in Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah.
A building in Gaza City was targeted in the north, and at least three houses were targeted in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
Palestinian health ministry officials said many of the dead were children.
The strikes took place during the holy month of Ramadan, hours before Palestinians in Gaza were due to wake up to break their fasts.
Israel consulted US President Donald Trump before launching air strikes on Gaza on Tuesday morning, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“As President Trump has made clear, Hamas, the Houthis, Iran - all those who seek to terrorise not just Israel but the US - will see a price to pay, and all hell will break loose,” Leavitt told Fox News.
“The Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran and Iranian-backed terror proxies should take President Trump very seriously when he says he’s not afraid to stand for law-abiding people and stand up for the US and our friend and ally Israel.”
At least 34 people, including children, have been killed in Israel’s surprise wave of attacks on the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Tuesday, according to local sources pic.twitter.com/QPTsdK4sik
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Al Jazeera Arabic is now reporting that the death toll from Israel's air strikes on Gaza has risen to 112.
At least 75 of those were killed in Khan Younis, south of enclave, medics reported.
The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes early on Tuesday morning has risen to 80, medics said.
Many children were among those killed, the medics added.
