This was inevitable, given Hamas’ jihad imperative. The question now is whether Hamas’ many international allies, such as the UN, will prevent Israel from destroying it as an entity.
“Ceasefire over as Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas refused to release hostages, officials say,” by Louis Casiano and Trey Yingst, Fox News, March 17, 2025:
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is over as Israeli fighter jets began striking the Gaza Strip after Hamas refused repeated hostage deal offers, officials said.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began striking Hamas terrorist targets across Gaza “in order to achieve the war objectives set by the political leadership, including the release of all our hostages—both the living and the fallen,” the office of Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a letter.
“This decision comes after Hamas repeatedly refused to release our hostages and rejected all proposals presented by U.S. President’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, as well as the mediators,” the letter states….
“Under the direction of the political echelon, the IDF and Shin Bet are widely attacking terrorist targets of the Hamas terrorist organization throughout the Gaza Strip, more details below,” the IDF and Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, said in a joint statement.
The IDF launched a series of preemptive strikes targeting mid-ranking military commanders, leadership officials and terrorist infrastructure belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization, an Israeli official told Fox News. The military offensive will continue as long as necessary, and will expand beyond air strikes, the official said….
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the airstrikes came after Hamas “rejected all offers it received” from the Trump administration’s special envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff and the other mediators.
“Tonight, we returned to fighting in Gaza due to Hamas’ refusal to release the hostages and threats to harm IDF soldiers and Israeli communities,” Katz said. “If Hamas does not release all the hostages, the gates of hell will open in Gaza, and Hamas’ murderers and rapists will meet the IDF with forces they have never known before.”
He noted that Israel “will not stop fighting until all the hostages return home and all the war’s goals are achieved.”
In a statement, Hamas blamed Netanyahu “and the Nazi Zionist occupation fully responsible for the repercussions of the treacherous aggression on Gaza, and for the defenseless civilians and our besieged Palestinian people, who are subjected to a brutal war and a systematic policy of starvation.”…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Finally! Hopefully, this time, Israel completely destroys Hamas and forces the Gazans into a situations where they are forced to leave. Then we can scout which country – be it Somalia, Western Sahara or anywhere else
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Finally! Hopefully, this time, Israel completely destroys Hamas and forces the Gazans into a situations where they are forced to leave. Then we can scout which country – be it Somalia, Western Sahara or anywhere else
ploome says
“Hamas” is islam
islam by ANY name is the problem
OLD GUY says
Boy do you have that right, Islam is the roots behind all this evil.
sporticus says
Paradox:some countries have already accepted Gazans as “temporary” refugees but if Western democracies allowed Merkel -style migration for Gazans they would form a queue a thousand miles long and wait for a thousand days to get a visa -and yet when America offers to rebuild Gaza and rehouse Gazans there are cries of outrage from the professional do-gooders that such an action would be morally despicable and an insult to the people of Gaza.
But we know that if the West opened its doors to the Gazans, Gaza would quickly turn into a desert ghost town or at most a visitors car park where the do-gooders would come to weep.
Cynthia says
They would gladly come to the West for a better standard of living. However, soon after they will complain, criticize and try to take power from the “infidel”.
Billy says
Islam, a Terrorist-Criminal Enterprise, and its predatory Muslims continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15 and more). Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the legal right to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this DIVINE DUTY is a Crime against Allah; Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:29; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-destructive way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,73,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
S says
I wish ALL our leaders would read AND incorporate this reality into every decision they make regarding anyone professing this evil ideology.
Praying for us to wake up NOW.