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2023. This is the excerpt.

Today a truce has ended between Israel and Hamas.

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The temporary truce between Israel and Hamas is over.

The ceasefire lasted seven days and expired without a word from the mediator nation

cutter. Israel resumed combat operations in Gaza this morning, minutes after the truce ended,

and accused Hamas of violating the deal by firing toward

Israel. Hamas released eight Israelis yesterday and another group of Palestinians were

let out of Israeli prisons earlier today hours before the truce came to an end.

Over a hundred hostages were freed during the ceasefire and Israel says around 125 people remain hostage.

Some 240 Palestinians released were mostly teenagers accused of

throwing stones and fire bombs during confrontations with Israeli forces.

The ceasefire expiration comes after Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin

met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

yesterday in Jerusalem.

There he reaffirmed US support

for what he called Israel's right to protect itself

in compliance with international humanitarian law while urging Israel to avoid harming civilians.

It's still not clear what this next phase of the war will look like.

Israel previously slammed Gaza with airstrikes and a ground incursion, often destroying homes and

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