Hamas fires rockets at Israel as ceasefire deadline EXPIRES: Israel relaunches offensive after six-day truce to liberate hostages crumbled

Israel has introduced it’s resuming its offensive in opposition to Gaza after a ceasefire with Hamas expired, as negotiations to liberate hostages broke down. 

The IDF claimed that Hamas ‘violated’ the ceasefire early and launched rockets on Israel within the early hours of Friday, with footage shared to social media showing to indicate assaults on the south Israel metropolis of Sderot. 

In response, the ‘IDF renewed fireplace in opposition to the terrorist group Hamas within the Gaza Strip’, Israeli navy claimed on X, previously Twitter. 

Just below an hour earlier than the ceasefire formally expired, the IDF Hamas-war-live-updates-ceasefire-latest-news-extension-Israel-frees-30-palestinians-hostages-released-newspercent3Fpagepercent3Dwith3Ablock-65695b1e8f0856ef8db6ea04″>claimed on X (previously Twitter) that Hamas launched a rocket on Israel, which was ‘intercepted by air protection fighters.’  

Hours earlier than the ceasefire ended Friday morning within the Center East, rocket sirens sounded close to the Gaza border.

In accordance with footage posted on social media by a reporter from Yeshiva World Information, a Jewish outlet, sirens might be heard within the southern Israel metropolis of Sderot adopted by sounds of a big explosion. 

Additional surveillance video shared by Center East analysis analyst Joe Truzman additionally appeared to indicate a rocket launch in the direction of Sderot intercepted by the Iron Dome, Israel‘s air strike protection techniques. 

It’s unclear if studies of a blast in Sderot are the identical incident the Israeli navy claimed it had intercepted within the Iron Dome.  

Studies of Telegram communications from the Shehab Information Company, thought of tied to Hamas, claimed gunfire and a number of other explosions struck northern Gaza earlier on Friday. 

Earlier than the ceasefire deadline handed, an advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned it was open to a different extension, on the situation of extra hostage releases. 

An IDF soldier patrols a fight space because the ceasefire with Gaza got here to an in depth 

 Officers initially anticipated the ceasefire to finish on Thursday morning earlier than it was prolonged for an extra day with simply minutes to spare. 

Israel had agreed to halt its retaliatory strikes on Gaza by a day for each 10 hostages who’re freed, with an extra two captured Israeli’s freed on Thursday afternoon. 

The ceasefire had begun on November 24 and was initially meant to be delivered to an in depth on Monday, as a number of extensions raised hopes from some that the worst combating within the Center East in current reminiscence might proceed to be halted amid ongoing negotiations.