{"id":305300,"date":"2025-03-18T08:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=305300"},"modified":"2025-03-19T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T08:15:00","slug":"hundreds-killed-as-israel-launches-air-strikes-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=305300","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds killed as Israel launches air strikes on Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Daily Telegraph \u2013 March 18, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_294429\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Bombed-school-building-sheltering-displaced-Palastinians-in-Jabalia-northern-Gaza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-294429\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt wp-image-294429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Bombed-school-building-sheltering-displaced-Palastinians-in-Jabalia-northern-Gaza.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-294429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bombed school building sheltering displaced Palastinians in Jabalia, northern Gaza. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Israel has restarted its war against Hamas, launching air strikes that killed at least 330 people and injured dozens more.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF confirmed this morning it had \u201cresumed fighting\u201d with Hamas after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2025\/03\/14\/hamas-hostage-edan-alexander-release-gaza-steve-witkoff\/\">talks on further hostage releases<\/a> stalled, bringing an end to a ceasefire that lasted two months.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cextensive strikes\u201d targeted mid-ranking military commanders, leadership officials and terrorist infrastructure belonging to Hamas, The Telegraph understands.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, promised \u201cincreasing military strength\u201d, while Israel Katz, the defence minister, said \u201cthe gates of hell\u201d would remain open in Gaza until all hostages were set free.<\/p>\n<p>The military action would continue \u201cas long as necessary\u201d and would \u201cexpand beyond air strikes\u201d, the IDF added.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas said Israel had resumed its \u201caggression\u201d against civilians and that by overturning the ceasefire agreement in an \u201cunprovoked escalation\u201d, Mr Netanyahu was \u201cexposing hostages in Gaza to unknown fate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamas-run health ministry said at least 330 people had died, including the group\u2019s minister for information.<\/p>\n<p>Hours before the strikes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2025\/03\/17\/uk-accuses-israel-breaking-international-law-gaza\/\">the UK accused Israel of breaking international law<\/a> for the first time since the start of the conflict in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, said Mr Netanyahu\u2019s country had committed \u201ca breach of international law\u201d, in a significant hardening of the British position.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2025\/03\/18\/israel-hamas-gaza-war-hostages-latest-news\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel resumes air strikes on Gaza killing at least 330 Palestinians overnight, in what even the British Foreign Secretary described as \u201ca breach of international law\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305303,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305300\/revisions\/305303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}