Why Israel has restarted the war with Hamas | Battle Lines

After just two months of a shaky ceasefire deal, the Israel Hamas war has restarted. On Tuesday morning, Israel launched a series of what it described as "extensive strikes" right across the entire Gaza Strip.

The death toll currently stands at more than 400, including many children, with nearly 600 more people wounded, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. That number is expected to rise as more bodies are pulled from the rubble. A spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry said this morning that Israel was left with no choice after Hamas refused a US-Israeli proposal to extend the ceasefire, which technically elapsed at the beginning of this month.

To make sense of all this, Venetia Rainey speaks to a Palestinian aid worker for MSF in Gaza, the cousin of Israeli slain hostage Tal Haimi, whose body is still held by Hamas, and The Telegraph's Jerusalem correspondent Henry Bodkin.

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[craigtheng]

Gazans danced in the streets celebrating on 10/7 when the hostages were brought in. Will they dance and celebrate when the hostages are released?

[BryanSWong]

No food and no water until the hostages are sent back home

[SubjectiveFunny]

They were warned, they were warned again, they were given MANY chances.
No more sympathy left.

[Helena-miw]

Hamas is more concern to hold the hostages then to protect its own people, tjis explain a lot about them!

[bobbycurl]

Give my people back. Save your people.

[nageshsharalaya]

They were warned ...all they had to do is return the hostages

[dirtydawg]

The UK MM coverage of this war needs to be put into proper context - the MM should right from the get-go have focused on the Israeli hostages and applied pressure on Hamas to free them - because that still hasn’t been done this conflict continues - the Israeli Gvmt has given two months for this to happen and it has released many more prisoners itself but still Gaza refuses to comply - the West is complicit with this atrocity and needs to be at least partially blamed for the on-going conflict as does our MM for the way in which they have covered it - but just as bad if not worse than that is the MM like The Telegraph whose failure to hardly cover the even bigger atrocities that are going on in Syria simply beggars belief - and this is why increasing numbers of people in the UK no longer trust the MM at all

[Victor-dwr]

TELEGRAPH PROPAGANDA FOR THE COWARDS .

[shafquatali]

Netanyahu knows there going for greater Israel.😢, if the war stops his political career is over😢

[Yeshuaway]

Hamas has a health ministry? 😂

Ahah I must remember that joke for work.
Who’d hear anything that Hamas run anything has to say?

[philmaldon]

Hamas broke international law October 7, 2024

[paulkeller]

Wow! Where did Hamas find all those recruits? Something must have motivated them.

[Jeremy-scqv]

Good overview of what’s going on, I would like these more often

[BryanSWong]

No agreement until every thing is right

[shortclip]

So killing civilians is not terrorism according to so called media.

[JustDucky-dk]

Who is narrating this weird Telegraph video? Sounds like some dodgy middle eastern channel.

[biago-]

From the land to sea Balochistan will be free😂

[ryanphelan]

trump ending wars...my mistake expanding

[mrali-dcrt]

ألا يستطيع أحد أن يفعل شيئا لوقف هذا سوى التحدث ضد الظالم؟

[ZenaAlireza]

AMERICA NEEDS TO STOP SENDING WEAPONS AND TELL BIBI TO GIVE THEM THE HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES