People walk past the Gaza municipality building in Gaza City on November 30, 2023. (Photo by Omar El-Qattaa / AFP)
Doha, Qatar: The humanitarian truce in Gaza ended on Friday morning with no new agreement announced. The truce expired at 7 am local time on December 1, 2023, after seven days of pause in fighting.
Heavy clashes have been reported in Gaza City and the north of the Gaza Strip after the truce has expired. Watch this page for more live updates:
IN PHOTOS: Renewed Israeli strikes after Gaza truce falls apart
This long exposure picture shows Israeli flares drifting over north Gaza on December 1, 2023. (Photo by John MacDougall / AFP)
This picture shows smoke rising from buildings still after being hit by Israeli strikes on December 1, 2023. (Photo by John MacDougall / AFP)
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[10:58pm Doha Time] Palestine calls for urgent international intervention to stop Israeli aggression against Gaza
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned in a statement against the continuation of the recurring Israeli aggression on the lives of Palestinian citizens, the exacerbation of the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, and the forced displacement imposed by the occupation forces on the Palestinian people.
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[9:30pm Doha Time] Gaza health ministry announced that 178 Palestinians have been killed and 589 injured since morning. Most of the dead and wounded are women and children, it said.
This picture taken from southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke rising from buildings after being hit by Israeli strikes on December 1, 2023. (Photo by John MacDougall / AFP)
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[9:19pm Doha Time] Qatari Prime Minister reiterates commitment to resume mediation efforts in meeting with UK Foreign Secretary.
HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani stressed that Qatar, along with its mediation partners, is committed to continuing efforts to return to calm, adding that the continued bombing of the Gaza Strip after the end of the pause complicates mediation efforts and exacerbates the humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip. Read more here.
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[7:19pm Doha Time] Heavy Israeli army bombardment of Khan Younis
Numerous plumes of smoke in the sky from Israeli army strikes Khan Younis, reported Al Jazeera.
Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip is currently housing thousands of Palestinians who have fled the bombing further north. Earlier today, the Israeli army dropped leaflets on the city, instructing Palestinians there to flee further south to Rafah.
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[4:16pm Doha Time] Death toll since truce expired tops 100
The number of people killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since this morning has now reached 109, medical sources told Al Jazeera. Hundreds of people have also been wounded.
A plume of smoke rises during an Israeli strike on the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on December 1, 2023, as fighting resumed shortly after the expiration of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Said Khatib / AFP)
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[4pm Doha Time] Gaza health ministry calls for opening of Rafah crossing
Ashraf Al Qudra, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has appealed to “every living conscience to allow the opening of the Rafah crossing amid an extremely catastrophic humanitarian crisis," Al Jazeera reported.
Al Qudra's comment came as Israeli air attacks resumed after a seven-day truce, killing at least 70 people in a few hours.
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[2:07 Doha Time] Fear, trauma return to children in Gaza as fighting resumes
James Elder, UNICEF’s global spokesperson, says children have returned to a state of fear and trauma as Israeli air attacks resume across the enclave.
“You can see the gentle change; a little childhood was returning in them” during the truce, said Elder from southern Gaza.
“That has gone now. The trauma, the fear in their little eyes as they see a look in their parents that they may be losing their ability to protect them – and that’s terrifying.
Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
[1:57 Doha Time] UN chief says he ‘deeply regrets’ resumption of fighting
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he regrets that fighting has resumed in Gaza and hopes that a pause in fighting can be renewed.
“The return to hostilities only shows how important it is to have a true humanitarian ceasefire,” Guterres said in a post on X.
[12:04 pm Doha Time] Fear taking over as ambulances start bringing casualties
UNICEF spokesperson James Elder, who is in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, has told Al Jazeera Palestinians in Gaza are once again full of fear after the resumption of Israel’s military offensive.
Speaking from outside Nasser Hospital, he said ambulances had already started transporting people to the largest active remaining complex in the enclave.
Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP
[11:46 am Doha Time]
Qatar expresses deep regret at the resumption of Israeli aggression against Gaza following the end of the humanitarian pause
The State of Qatar expresses its deep regret at the resumption of the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip following the end of the humanitarian pause, without reaching an agreement to extend it.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that negotiations between the two sides are continuing with the aim of returning to a state of pause. It also clarifies that the State of Qatar is committed, along with its mediation partners, to continuing the efforts that led to the humanitarian pause, and will not hesitate to do everything necessary to return to calm.
[10:32 am Doha Time] Death toll breakdown
According to Gaza’s health ministry, at least 21 people have been killed since Israel’s army resumed its attacks:
- Two people were killed in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip
- Seven people killed at Maghazi, central Gaza Strip
- One in Khan Younis City, southern Gaza Strip
- Two in Hamad town, south of Khan Younis
- Nine in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.
[10:28 Doha Time] IN PHOTOS: Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip after the truce expired.
Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
[8:30 am Doha Time] Heavy clashes reported
Witnesses in Gaza City and the north of the Gaza Strip say heavy clashes are taking place between Palestinian fighting groups and Israeli troops.
In the center of the Gaza Strip, Israeli tanks are also shelling near Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps.
[8 am Doha Time] Truce deadline passes
The deadline for the Israel-Hamas truce to be extended has passed with no new agreement announced.
