The Israeli military says on Tuesday, March 18, it carried out strikes across Gaza, ending a weeks-long deadlock over extending the ceasefire in January.
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00:00The Israeli military says on Tuesday, March 18, it carried out strikes across Gaza, ending
00:06a weeks-long deadlock over extending the ceasefire in January.
00:10Palestinian Health Ministry officials report at least a hundred are dead.
00:14These attacks are much larger than the usual drone strikes, and follow failed attempts
00:17to extend the January 19 truce.
00:20Hamas says Israel broke the ceasefire agreement, leaving the fate of 59 hostages in Gaza uncertain.
00:26Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office accuses Hamas of, quote,
00:30"...repeated refusal to release our hostages and rejecting proposals from U.S. President
00:34Donald Trump's Middle East envoy."
00:37In Washington, a White House spokesperson says Israel consulted with the U.S. before
00:41carrying out the strikes.
00:44But Hamas wanted to start talks for a permanent end to the war and a full withdrawal of Israeli
00:48forces from Gaza, as outlined in the original ceasefire agreement.