’Israel’ Resumes Aggression on Gaza: Martyrs Commander’s Wife, Child

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Hamas resistance movement said Wednesday that an "Israeli" air strike martyred the wife and child of its Gaza military chief, as a temporary ceasefire went up in smoke and Cairo truce talks froze.

"The wife of the great leader [Mohammed Deif] was martyred with his daughter," in a strike Tuesday night, Hamas's exiled deputy leader Mussa Abu Marzuk wrote on Facebook.

The "Israeli" military said it hit "more than 25 targets" in Gaza Tuesday but would not elaborate.
Tuesday's martyrdom of the woman and a two-year-old girl were the first as a result of "Israeli" air raids in Gaza since August 10.

In a strike Wednesday morning on the southern Gaza town of Deir el-Balah a pregnant woman, three children and two men were martyred, all members of the Aloah family, emergency services said.

They said that the woman was nine months pregnant but medics were unable to save the fetus.

Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said "Israel" had "opened the gates of hell on itself" by the killings and warned that the Zionist entity would "pay the price for its crimes."

A 24-hour truce due to last until midnight collapsed late Tuesday afternoon.
The al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement that it fired 34 rockets into the zionsit entity throughout Tuesday, hitting Tel Aviv and the southern settlements in Ber Sabaa [Beersheva].

An "Israeli" military statement put the number fired at "about 50".
Air raid sirens were also heard in Occupied al-Quds.

Police said it appeared that a rocket fell on empty ground in the occupied West Bank.
"Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a new round of air strikes on Gaza and recalled his negotiators from Egyptian-mediated ceasefire talks in Cairo.
"The rocket fire which broke the ceasefire also destroyed the foundation on which the talks in Cairo were based," Netanyahu spokesman Mark Regev claimed early Wednesday.
"The Egyptian initiative is based on a total and unconditional cessation of hostilities, which was clearly broken when rockets were fired into "Israel"."
Palestinian delegation head Azzam al-Ahmed said that his team would leave Cairo on Wednesday.

"We are leaving...but we have not pulled out of negotiations," he said, adding the Palestinians were waiting for "Israel" to respond to their truce proposal.
"We will not come back [to Cairo] until "Israel" responds," he said.
The fighting shattered nine days of relative quiet in the skies over Gaza.
A senior Hamas official, Ezzat al-Rishq, warned Tel Aviv it would "not enjoy security so long as the Palestinian people do not".

But "Israel's" US ally put the blame squarely on the group itself.
"Hamas has security responsibility for Gaza... Rocket fire came from Gaza," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said.
"As of right now, with today's developments, we are very concerned and it is our understanding the ceasefire has broken down."
The renewal of "Israeli" air strikes spread panic among Gaza residents.

In "Israel", the army said that it ordered that public bomb shelters within 80 kilometers of the Gaza border, be opened ready for use.

That includes Tel Aviv and al-Quds.

"Israel" has vowed not to negotiate under fire, and Netanyahu has pledged "a very strong response" to any resumption of rocket attacks.
The Cairo talks center on an Egyptian proposal that meets some Palestinian demands, such as easing "Israel's" eight-year blockade on Gaza, but puts off debate on other thorny issues until later.

Amnesty International renewed an appeal for access to Gaza.
"Valuable time has already been lost," it said.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team