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Hamas bears full responsibility for the ongoing war in Gaza and for the resumption of hostilities. Every death would have been avoided had Hamas accepted the bridge proposal that the United States offered last Wednesday,
acting U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Dorothy Shea told the 15-member council
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We will intensify the fighting with strikes from the air, sea and land and by expanding the ground maneuver until the hostages are released and Hamas is defeated,
Katz wrote
We're very, very worried that our country is becoming a dictatorship,
Rinat Hadashi, 59, told Reuters in Jerusalem on Thursday
Ronen Bar will conclude his duties on 10 April 2025 or when a permanent ISA Director is appointed – whichever comes first,
Mr Netanyahu’s office saidI ordered [the army] to seize more territory in Gaza,
Katz said
We can stretch that by giving people less, but we are talking days, not weeks,
Unrwa official Sam Rose told reporters in Geneva in an online briefing from central Gaza, reports ReutersThreats by the Israeli government to annex parts of Gaza would violate the rights of Palestinians and breach international law
Calum Miller, the Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesman, told MailOnline
It wants to seize territory and potentially never return it.
He told Al JazeeraDue to the recent suspension of humanitarian aid into Gaza, stocks of medical supplies have dropped significantly and on top of this, hospital staff are struggling to manage the sharp increase of casualties.
In a statement, they saidThe president made it very clear to Hamas that if they did not release all of the hostages there would be all hell to pay,
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday
I have instructed the IDF to seize additional areas in Gaza, while evacuating the population, and to expand the security zones around Gaza for the protection of Israeli communities and IDF soldiers,
Katz said in a statementThe more Hamas continues its refusal, the more territory it will lose to Israel,
Katz added
Hamas could have released hostages to extend the ceasefire but instead chose war,
NSC Spokesman James Hewitt said on Thursday
If the hostages are not released, Israel will continue to take more and more territory in the strip for permanent control,
Katz stated
As part of the activity, the troops dismantled... terrorist infrastructure,
the military said in a statementWe’re acting positively with any proposal that leads to the start of negotiations” over a permanent truce
he added
The problem isn’t the numbers,
Mr. Badran told The New York TimesThis is the longest period since the start of conflict in October 2023 that no supplies whatsoever have entered Gaza,
UNRWA’s Sam Rose told reporters, speaking from central Gaza
Most of Gaza’s hospitals are at risk of collapsing and shutting down if they do not receive fuel in the coming days,
Khoudary saidThey did not throw leaflets or drop any warnings asking people to evacuate those areas. Suddenly, Palestinians found endless air strikes and artillery shelling attacking them,
she said