Several explosions and gunfire have been reported in northern Gaza as Israel said it has resumed its attacks on the besieged strip after a temporary ceasefire expired.
Palestinian media outlets also reported fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian resistance fighters on Friday.
The Gaza-based interior ministry said Israel launched artillery strikes on the northwestern part of the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, an AFP journalist said a series of Israeli airstrikes also hit the besieged strip. That came as the Israeli military said that it has “resumed combat against Hamas” resistance movement in Gaza.
Earlier, sirens were sounded in Israeli settlements near Gaza as the Israeli regime claimed it had intercepted a rocket fired from Gaza.
The truce, which was extended twice, began on November 24 and ended at 7 am (0500 GMT) Friday. The ceasefire had paused brutal Israeli strikes on Gaza that began in early October.
Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
Tel Aviv also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis.
More than 15,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in the Israeli strikes.
The truce saw the release of 105 Israeli captives held in Gaza and 240 Palestinian prisoners.
The ceasefire has allowed some humanitarian aid into Gaza but the aid supplies were far below what is needed, according to aid workers.
