The EFE agency reported that the balance only includes the Deaths and injured who have reached hospitals and exclude Dozens of victims who would be among the debris of destroyed buildings.
According to the government of Loopamong the deceased 144 were children and 89 womenboth segments represent 65% of the total victims.
Children observe people walking among the rubble of a building destroyed by a night Israeli attack in Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, on March 18, 2025. (Photo of Bashar Taleb / AFP).
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Israeli defense minister Israel Katz warned Hamas that “the rules of the game have changed” and said that attacks against Gaza will not cease. (Photo: EFE).
Netanyahu announced in the early hours of Tuesday that Israel Defense Forces (FDI) They were attacking “objectives of the terrorist organization Hamas throughout the Gaza Strip to achieve the objectives of the war. ”
“From now on, Israel will act against Hamas with more and more military force”Netanyahu said in a statement.
For his part, Israel’s Foreign Minister, Gideon Saarhe said that his country He decided to bomb Gaza to get out of the “point of death” in the negotiations with Hamas and force him to reach an agreement for the delivery of the 58 kidnapped (mostly dead) that he maintains in his possession.
The Israeli hostages of Hamas in Gaza. (AFP).
However, the Forum of hostage and missing families said in a statement that his “greatest fear” had come true and that Netanyahu had “chosen to abandon the hostages”.
Israel He also ordered the evacuation of the areas of Beit Hanoun (northern Gaza) and the neighborhoods of Khuzaa, abasate the Kabira and abasate the Jadida in Jan Yunis (south), next to the border near the “cushioning zone”, in which his troops are concentrated from the high the fire.
Wounded at the Alahli hospital in Ciudad de Gaza, north of the strip, after the attacks of Israel. (EFE/ AHMAD AWAD).
The Government spokesman of Israel, David Mencehe said that bombings in Loopthey were “in total coordination with Washington.”
“Israel thanked the president [Donald] Trump and his administration his unwavering support for Israel, ”said Mence at a press conference.
At a UN Security Council meeting, Dorothy Shea, the United States attached ambassador, defended Israel’s action and said that Hamas’ refusal to negotiate forced military action.
Hamas He ruled through a statement where he denied that he was planning an attack against Israeli troops and said that Israel He seeks “false pretexts” to “justify his return to war and the escalation of his bloody aggression” against the Palestinians in Gaza.
A Merkava main battle tank of the Israeli army advances towards a position in southern Israel, next to the border fence with the north of the Gaza Strip, on March 18, 2025. (Photo of Menahem Kahana / AFP).
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On March 2, the First phase of Alto El Fuego Without an agreement on the second phase, which contemplated a definitive truce, the delivery of the hostages and the withdrawal of troops from Loop.
Israel decided not to move towards the second phase and instead seeks to extend the first phase. It requires Hamas the release of more hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, without committing to end the war, something that is not accepted by the Palestinian militia.
Netanyahu’s internal problems
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, attends his opinion for corruption in the Tel Aviv district court, on March 12, 2025. (Photo: Yair Sagi / AFP).
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The Israeli newspaper Haaretz indicated that although Netanyahu justifies the operation in Loop as a necessary step to break the stagnation in the negotiations and, at the same time, to fulfill the promise to defeat Hamas And bringing back to hostages, reality indicates that the captives could die before Hamas is defeated, “if it becomes defeated.”
For haaretz, Behind the breakdown of the truce there are a number of urgent political objectives of the prime ministerhow to make the government return Itamar Ben-Gvir and its extreme right faction Otzma Yehudit to approve the budget and stabilize the coalition directed by the country.
In a first reaction to bombings, Ben-Gvir’s party on Tuesday announced his return to the government. This group had moved away from Netanyahu Because I did not agree with the truce signed with Hamas, which in its three phases implied the end of the war.
Another internal issue has to do with the decision of Netanyahu to dismiss the director of the Internal Intelligence Service (Shin Bet), RONEN Barwhich raised criticism of the opposition and the State Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara, who warned of his illegality and the conflict of interest that he can assume.
A vote is pending in the Executive that decides the fate of Bar.
At the moment, The Shin Bet investigates, by order of the Attorney General, several ex -mars and spokesmen of the Netyahu office For the ‘Qatargate’ scandal, which splashes them with alleged financial links with this country of the Persian Gulf.
“This time, Netanyahu’s political survival truly depends on maintaining the pressure in Gazaincluding an attempt to divert the attention of the media of the renewed protests against the Government for the plan to fire Bar ”Haaretz said.
“Netanyahu’s true goal seems clearer: a gradual sliding towards an authoritarian style regimewhose survival will try to ensure through a perpetual war on multiple fronts ”, The influential newspaper added.
Hamas will not give up
Hamas fighters meet at the scene of the delivery of Israeli hostages in the refugee field of Nuseirat, in the center of the Gaza Strip, on February 22, 2025. (Photo of Eyad Baba / AFP).
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The journalist Carlos Novoaspecialist in topics of the Middle Easthe told this newspaper that both the political survival of Netanyahu as the stagnation of the negotiations are behind the decision of Israel to break the truce in Loop.
“Before the breakdown of the truce, it had been seen that there was no other option. The truce was very weak. Under that perspective, reaching the second and third phase of the agreement was practically impossible if one of the two parties opposed. Then, it is evident that at the end of the first phase, and with many hostages in the hands of Hamas, Israel was going to press a lot”Novoa held Commerce.
The journalist considered that having as an ally to Trump In the government of USAmilitary reality suggests Israel that this is the moment in which he must go with everything and attack Hamasthat is weakened, “despite the fact that in his propaganda actions he says something else, it is already clear that his control in Gaza is fully cracking.”
Will Hamás capitular and agree to deliver to the hostages without an agreement for the end of the war? Novoa considered that the Islamist militia will not give in. “They prefer to have thousands of innocent Palestinians in the strip under their control before yielding and surrendering.”
“There are other factors that must be taken into account, such as how much the United States government is willing to press the guarantors in negotiations as Egypt and Qatar so that these influence Hamas to give in. But me I don’t think Hamas agrees to free all hostages in exchange for anything. That would be a capitulation “Novoa said.
“The only way to survive is with the hostages in their possession. So, I think the situation is going to be maintained at a dead point without a definitive solution to the conflict, ”said Novoa.
