The new Israeli airstrikes raining down on Gaza overnight after
the temporary ceasefire collapsed.
The death toll climbing in Gaza as the fate of
more than
130 hostages hangs in the balance.
We have team coverage this morning.
Let's start with ABC News foreign correspondent Tom Sufi Burridge
in Stirrote,
Israel, near the Gaza border with the latest Tom.
Good morning.
Yeah, good morning. We've been hearing the thud of Israeli
artillery firing out into Gaza.
In the distance there, you can probably see the smoke.
We've been hearing small arms fired just now.
More explosions. I don't know if you can hear it
right now,
actually. And jets overhead just minutes ago this morning,
the Israeli military urging civilians in specific areas of Gaza
to leave their homes.
But the civilian toll they're mounting,
the war here after that ceasefire is very much back
on
overnight. Israeli jets hitting southern Gaza,
the IDF releasing video of air strikes claiming it destroyed
more than 400 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip since
the week long ceasefire collapsed Friday.
More than 200 people killed and many more hundreds wounded
in just the past day,
according to Gaza's Hamas run health ministry,
with Israel and Hamas blaming each other for the war,
reigniting Hamas, launching rockets into southern Israel,
and releasing this video showing militants launching drones
overnight. News that six more Israeli hostages held by Hamas
are now confirmed dead.
The war back on. The fate of another
130 hostages, including eight Americans hanging in the balance.
Hamas taking them in that audacious barbaric assault on October
7th,
killing 1200 people. This amid that bombshell New York Times
report suggesting Israeli officials had access to Hamas plans a
year ago.
A US official telling ABC News that the US intelligence
community had no advanced knowledge of the Jericho war document
obtained by the Times,
which detailed many of the Hamas plans for the October
7th attack.
There is going to be
plenty of opportunity for a full accounting of what happened
on October 7th,
including looking back to see
what happened,
who, who knew what when.
Well, the third of explosions in Gaza has really picked
up.
In the last few seconds.
We're hearing something buzzing Overhead.
You can see the smoke again.
The IDF's renewed campaign against Hamas now does appear to
be more focused on areas of southern Gaza,
but that is where most of Gaza's population has fled
the US urging Israel to do everything to limit civilian
casualties.
But remember, that strip of land behind me is densely
populated.
And Tom, the families of those Israeli hostages now back
in that awful position of waiting as this war rages
on.
That's right, Witt. Yeah. Tonight we're expecting families of the
hostages to hold another rally in Tel Aviv.
And for the first time,
we're told some of the released hostages themselves will be
there,
adding their voice to the campaign.
Witt, Tom Sufi Bridge for us.
Thank you.