The Israeli military said it had hit 430 targets in Gaza since Israel broke a ceasefire with Hamas with a series of attacks on March 18, Al Jazeera reports.
The statement said the military also hit 18 targets in Syria and, they described, 40 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon during the same period.
It added that Israeli air defenses intercepted 14 attacks over the past week, including six rockets fired from Yemen, three rockets from Lebanon and five rockets from Gaza.
The continuation of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip has displaced 142.000 people in a week, a spokesman for the UN Secretary-General said today, expressing concern that humanitarian aid supplies are dwindling.
"In just one week, 142.000 people have been displaced, and that number is expected to increase," said spokesman Stefan Dujarric.
He recalled that 90 percent of the population of the Gaza Strip had already been displaced at least once between October 7, 2023, and the entry into force of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on January 19.
The ceasefire was broken by Israeli offensive actions on March 18.
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Thousands of Palestinians marched through the ruins of a destroyed town in northern Gaza on the second day of anti-war protests, with many chanting slogans against Hamas, a rare expression of public discontent with the group.
The protests, which took place mainly in northern Gaza, appeared to be a general expression of opposition to Israel's war in Gaza, with demonstrators calling for an end to the 17 months of deadly conflict with Israel that has made life in the Gaza Strip unbearable.
However, public calls against Hamas, which has long suppressed dissent and continues to rule the territory months after the start of the war with Israel, are very rare.
In the city of Beit Lahia, where a similar protest took place on Tuesday, about 3.000 people demonstrated, many chanting: "The people want the fall of Hamas." In the hard-hit Shujai neighborhood of Gaza, dozens of men chanted: "Out, out, out! Hamas, out!"
"Our children were killed. Our homes were destroyed," said Abed Radwan, who told The Associated Press that he was taking part in the protest in Beit Lahia "against the war, against Hamas and the [Palestinian political] factions, against Israel and against the silence of the world."
Amar Hassan, who participated in Tuesday's protest, said the protest began as an anti-war rally with a few dozen people, but soon grew to more than 2.000, with people chanting slogans against Hamas.
"It's the only party we can influence," he told the AP by phone.
"Protests won't stop the [Israeli] occupation, but they can influence Hamas."
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened today to act with "maximum force" in other parts of the Gaza Strip, where the ceasefire ended on March 18th with Israeli bombing.
"The army will soon carry out operations with maximum force in areas of the Gaza Strip," Katz said in a video on the X platform, addressing residents of the Palestinian territory.
Katz, in a statement in Hebrew, with English subtitles, said that the Palestinian movement Hamas is putting Palestinian lives in danger.
"Hamas is putting your lives in danger, causing you to lose your homes and more and more territory," the minister added.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened earlier today that Israel would occupy parts of the Gaza Strip if Hamas refuses to release hostages it is holding in the Palestinian territory.
Netanyahu warned Hamas that it could increase pressure on the Gaza Strip, where his army resumed operations on March 18th, after breaking a ceasefire that began on January 19th.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened today that Israel will occupy parts of the Gaza Strip if the Palestinian movement Hamas refuses to release hostages it is holding in the Palestinian territory.
Netanyahu warned Hamas that he could increase "pressure" on the Gaza Strip, where his army resumed operations on March 18, after the expiration of a ceasefire that began on January 19.
"The longer Hamas persists in refusing to release our people, the hostages, the stronger the pressure will be," Netanyahu said in the Knesset in Jerusalem.
"I tell Hamas that this includes taking territory, as well as other measures that I will not detail here," the prime minister warned.
A few days ago, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said he had "ordered (the army) to seize more territory in the Gaza Strip, while evacuating the population."
"The longer Hamas refuses to release the hostages, the more territory it will lose, which will be annexed to Israel," said Kac.
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Hamas said today that Israeli hostages it is holding in the Gaza Strip could be killed if Israel tries to free them by force and if attacks on Palestinian territory continue.
The Palestinian Islamist movement said in a statement that it was doing "everything possible to keep the prisoners alive, but the indiscriminate Zionist bombing is putting their lives in danger."
"Every time the (Israeli) occupation tries to forcibly reclaim its prisoners, it ends up bringing them back in coffins," he added.
The Israeli military resumed its bombardment of the Gaza Strip on March 18 after a ceasefire in the war that has been ongoing since Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Since the resumption of Israeli military operations on March 18, 830 people have been killed in the besieged Palestinian territory, according to a report by the Health Ministry of the Hamas government in Gaza released today.
Hamas announced today that 18 people have been killed in the Palestinian territories since March 830, bringing the total death toll to 50.183.
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In several protest marches in the Gaza Strip, citizens have demanded an end to the war, and some have also turned against Hamas. There are also calls for the demonstrations to continue.
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Syrian authorities said today that the Israeli bombing represented a "flagrant violation of Syria's sovereignty."
The Israeli military claimed that "terrorists opened fire on the positions of its soldiers from neighboring southern Syria."
"Soldiers responded, and the air force struck the terrorists," the Israeli army said.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it "condemned the continued Israeli aggression on Syrian territory," particularly the "dangerous escalation" that reportedly killed "six civilians in Daraa province."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the "flagrant violation of national sovereignty."
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