Foreign Ministry says Israel to use ‘increasing military intensity’ against Hamas

The Foreign Ministry says that Israel’s renewed campaign against Hamas in Gaza after two months of ceasefire will continue to escalate.

“As of this morning, Israel is operating with full force against the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip,” says the Foreign Ministry in a statement, adding that “from this point forward, Israel will act against Hamas with increasing military intensity.”

The statement cites Hamas’s continued refusal of ceasefire proposals as cause for the resumed aggression, emphasizing that “Hamas rejected two concrete mediation proposals presented by the US president’s envoy, Steve Witkoff,” and that while Israel agreed to these proposals, “Hamas refused them.”

“The IDF is striking Hamas terrorist targets across the Gaza Strip, aiming to achieve the war’s objectives, which include the release of all our hostages, the dismantling of Hamas’s military and governmental infrastructure, and the removal of the terrorist threat from Gaza to Israel’s security and its citizens,” according to the Foreign Ministry.