When Israel strikes kill hundreds of people in Gaza, the retired general said the attack will mean “more hostages” and will also

Tel Aviv – For the second consecutive night, Israeli troops launched Air strike According to health officials in the Palestinian territory operated by Hamas, at least 13 people were killed in the Gaza Strip, the entire Gaza Strip, after more than 400 people were killed the day before.

Israel’s army said it has targeted Hamas military sites in the southern al-mawasi humanitarian zone near the enclave’s border with Egypt. According to Red Crescent, at least two civilians were killed on Wednesday.

Additionally, UNOPS, which helps implement humanitarian, development and peacebuilding projects around the world, said on Wednesday that one of its staff members was apparently killed in the explosion in the central Gaza city of Deir Al-Balah.

“There are reports that a UNICO colleague was killed in an explosion in Deir Al Balah. It is understood that UNOPS’s accommodation was attacked at 11:30 am this morning,” the agency said.

UNOPS’s statement comes after the Israeli military issued a statement denied reports that it had attacked the “United Nations compound” hours after Deir al-Balah and added that “media media acted on unverified reports.”

After Israel explicitly ended a two-month ceasefire, it ended with Hamas before dawn on Tuesday, resuming full-scale military operations in Gaza and threatening to further strengthen the attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to strike in a national speech Tuesday night, forcing Hamas to release all the remaining 59 hostages in Gaza, about 12 of whom are still believed to be alive.

Israel said on Wednesday it launched “limited ground operations” in northern Gaza to retake part of a split corridor, according to the Associated Press.

Even before Israel resumed its military operations, it stopped all delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, warning from aid agencies and the United Nations that civilians suffered improperly for the deadlock in talks aimed at expanding the ceasefire.

“If this child passes, it will be a blessing”

American surgeon Dr. Marc Perlmutter, who has volunteered at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in northern Gaza, told CBS News on Tuesday that the facility was working to cope with the influx of new patients injured in Israel attacks, while young Palestinians were the worst injured.

He told CBS News in a mobile interview. “Israel has no trouble bombing of the hospital. Fifty feet from me, it is a completely destroyed mosque. They have not suppressed their focus on the population center.”

Perlmutter said that given the complete lack of medical supplies—he didn’t even wash his hands with soap—makes no proper treatment of some serious injuries to children.

Speaking of a boy, he said: “It would be a blessing due to the amount of pain and physical destruction of this child – our ability to deal with it in this case is greatly limited – and there is no place to be transferred to his outside.

Israeli protesters condemn Netanyahu for returning to war

Black feathers rise along the border between Israel’s border fence and Gaza, Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker, tired but relentless mother, Matan Zangauker, took the can of smoke into the sky, angrily protesting Netanyahu’s military recovery operation.

“Don’t let the Prime Minister and his members of the government sacrifice the lives of my son Matan and all other living hostages, just to keep in power,” Zangauker shouted. “We will not give up on you, we will not be allowed to return to the battle.”

Hamas terrorists kidnapped her 25-year-old son from Kibbutz Nir Oz in an unprecedented massacre on October 7, 2023.

Since the strike in Gaza resumed, demonstrations led by hostage families exploded across Israel, with thousands of people erupting in the Israeli legislature, the Israeli legislature, Jerusalem and Israel’s military headquarters, Kirya.

Hostage supporter Carmeet Roth told CBS News at a new tent camp outside the defense complex. She said she felt “fear” when Israeli troops restarted the air strikes in Gaza on the ground after nearly two months of fragile ceasefire. Her hopes of more hostage lives have declined.

“I think it’s probably unlikely,” she said, “We’ve seen it before. I mean, it never brought them back. Only agreements and deals can get them back. That’s how we move forward.”

National polls have always shown that most of the Israelis — 70% in a survey in February — hope that Israel and Hamas will agree to a ceasefire plan, which is negotiated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar to continue to follow the initial rules. The second phase of the plan should begin on March 1, requiring the release of more living hostages in exchange for the entire evacuation of Israeli troops from Gaza.

Israel, supported by Trump administration Requires changes to these terms However, with the end of the first phase of the deal, Hamas was accused of violating the deal and called for an extension of the first phase under its new plan attributed to the White House.

Will the Gaza attack destroy Hamas, or will only “more hostage deaths” be left?

Retired General Ziv of Israel knows a lot about how Israeli forces operate in the Gaza Strip. During the last major conflict in the early 2000s, he commanded the Gaza division of the army, although both sides suffered serious casualties compared to the current war.

But the 30-year veteran warned that Israel’s military may have met its will to force Hamas to surrender to Netanyahu and his far-right government, which has repeatedly vowed to achieve its stated goal of destroying Hamas.

“It can be said that you can go 80%, accounting for 90% of the destruction of Hamas,” he said. “But the last 10%, it’s the most difficult and problematic, you can’t achieve military success.”

Zif said that only a political solution can achieve lasting peace between Israel and Hamas, accusing Netanyahu of doing business “not having enough courage to bring some political solutions to the table.”

Ziv said Netanyahu was caught in 22 catches: vowing to release the rest of the hostages safely while trying to kill the person who owned the holder.

Israel Defense Forces International spokesman Nadav Shoshani insisted that the army was ready to increase pressure on Hamas, and doing so would bring the remaining hostages home.

“We are ready to develop a different set of plans that include more troops and ground operations,” he told CBS News in a briefing this week. “History shows that military pressure may bring hostages.”

ZIV disagrees with the assessment.

“We know that more than a year of military pressure won’t take hostages back,” he said. “In some cases, another way – it kills them. It kills hostages.”

“Unfortunately, I think we’re going to see more hostage deaths if we just keep raids and attacks.”