The military action comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office accused Hamas of failing to return hostages, which was part of an increasingly fragile ceasefire agreement.

A foreign worker, who was wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations headquarters site, is brought into Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital, in Deir Al-Balah in the central

For Palestinians, the renewed strikes brought a sudden return to the carnage and terror of the 15-month-long war.