A weeklong cease-fire in Gaza collapsed on Friday morning after Israel said Hamas had fired rockets toward Israel in the hours before the truce was set to expire, and Israel responded with strikes on the territory.
But early Friday, shortly before the truce was set to end, Israel’s military said on the social media site X that it had intercepted a projectile fired from Gaza.
Nonetheless, minutes after the 7 a.m. deadline passed, Israel announced that it was restarting operations in Gaza.
Shortly afterward, both the Israeli military and Gaza’s Hamas-run Interior Ministry said that Israel was carrying out strikes across Gaza.
“We have sworn, I have sworn, to eliminate Hamas,” Mr. Netanyahu said.
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