Israel-Palestine live: US and Israel air differences over Gaza strategy

Israel is preparing for a “long war” that could go on until next year with the aim of killing the Hamas leadership and destroying the group's tunnel network and multiple battalions. 

Sources told the Financial Times that Israel’s goals include killing the three top Hamas leaders - Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Marwan Issa - while securing “a decisive” military victory against the group’s 24 battalions and underground tunnel network and destroying its "governing capability in Gaza".

One person familiar with the Israeli plan said: “This will be a very long war . . . We’re currently not near halfway to achieving our objectives."

Another person familiar with Israel’s war plans said the military still considers operations in northern Gaza to be incomplete. “Gaza City isn’t finished yet, nor fully conquered. It’s probably 40 percent done,” the person told the FT.

“For the north as a whole, it will probably require another two weeks to a month.”

Aid trucks have stopped entering Gaza after hostilities resumed following the end of a truce between Israel and Palestinian groups.

Egyptian security and aid sources told Reuters that aid and fuel trucks stopped crossing into Gaza via the Rafah crossing.

The sources added that the amount of aid that entered Gaza during the truce was not enough to help the besieged population.

Egypt’s Mada Masr news outlet has reported that four foreign nationals who held a protest outside the Egyptian foreign ministry urging for the opening of the Rafah crossing with Gaza have been missing for 12 hours.

The news outlet reports that the last time eyewitnesses saw the four activists was on Thursday afternoon when Egyptian security escorted them away from the ministry.

The activists have reported to hold American, Australian and French passports.

Israel's Home Front Command, which is responsible for civil defence, said it sounded air sirens in the southern Israeli settlements of Yad Mordechai and Netiv Hatara, near Gaza. 

The sirens come after Palestinian fighters launched a series of rockets towards Israel after the truce in Gaza ended. 

Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets on Palestinians in Gaza and told them to move further south, away from Khan Yunis to the Rafah area, which borders Egypt.  

Text from the Israeli leaflet said: "To the residents of Al-Qarara, Kuza'a, Abasan and Bani Suhaila, you must evacuate immediately and go to the shelters in Rafah. The city of Khan Yunis is a dangerous combat zone."

Qatar's foreign ministry said talks for a new truce between Israel and Hamas are ongoing after the last pause in fighting expired on Friday morning. 

Doha said it expressed "deep regret" for the new round of fighting and vowed it would do "everything necessary to return to calm."

"The Ministry stresses that the continued bombing of the Gaza Strip in the first hours after the end of the pause complicates mediation efforts and exacerbates the humanitarian catastrophe on the strip," the Ministry said in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ), said it attacked Israeli cities and towns on Friday morning in response to "crimes against our people", according to a statement by the group.

The Palestine health ministry spokesperson in Gaza, Ashraf al Qudra, confirmed that the death toll had risen to 32 Palestinians from Israeli air strikes since the truce ended on Friday morning. 

Qudra told AFP that the dead included 10 people killed in al-Maghazi in central Gaza, nine in Rafah in the south, and five in Gaza City in the north - hours after the truce ended at 7 am local time. 

Israel renewed its bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip on Friday morning after talks to extend a truce had failed. 

The Palestine health ministry said the new round of Israeli bombardment had already killed 21 Palestinians with dozens more wounded. 

Pictures posted by AFP showed thousands of Palestinians back on the street walking to safer areas. 

The Palestine Health Ministry has reported that Israel's bombardment of Gaza has already killed 21 Palestinians in the first two hours of the truce ending. 

Ashraf al Qudra, the spokesperson for the health ministry in Gaza, said dozens of women and children had also been wounded in the new round of Israeli bombing. 

The Ministry provided a breakdown of where the people have been killed since the attacks began: 

• Two people killed in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip.
• Seven people killed at Maghazi, central Gaza Strip.
• One in Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip.
• Two in Hamad town, south of Khan Younis.
• Nine in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

Good morning MEE readers. On Friday morning, after Israel and Hamas failed to extend a seven-day truce in Gaza, Israel's military began an intense bombing campaign all across the enclave.

The renewed fighting has already led to several Palestinian deaths and injuries, and the death toll is expected to rise in the coming hours.

Here is what you need to know:

• Four Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah, and at least two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in the Maghazi camp in central Gaza.

• The last round of 30 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel arrived in Ramallah in the early hours of Friday morning.

• A new report from The New York Times states that Israeli officials had obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the 7 October attack more than a year before it happened, but Israeli officials dismissed the plan because they believed Hamas did not have the capabilities to pull it off.

• Israeli forces launched several overnight raids across the occupied West Bank on Friday morning.

To read more about the resumption of the war in Gaza, click here.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday accused Hamas of not agreeing to release further hostages and violating the terms of the truce.

In a statement from his office, Netanyahu said Israel was committed to achieving its objectives as fighting resumed.

"With the resumption of fighting we emphasise: The Israeli government is committed to achieving the goals of the war - to free our hostages, to eliminate Hamas, and to ensure that Gaza will never pose a threat to the residents of Israel," the statement said.

Several Palestinian news outlets are reporting that four people have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah, which is located in southern Gaza near the border with Egypt.

At least two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in the Maghazi camp in central Gaza.