330 reported killed so far in today's airstrikes

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/czje23jd779t

New evacuation orders have been issued. Israeli government reported as saying they will fight until their war aims are achieved.

It's not about the hostages.

If it was they would have went to phase 2 where they would have been released.

But you know that and you are trying to distract from the 174 children that don't get tucked into bed tonight because at 2 am yesterday morning without warning bombs were released that literally blew their bodies to smithereens.

Where is the "care" for the 174 children murdered last night @caringcarer

Agree. They need to hand the hostages back. Doubt they’ll during the war though. If only they had an agreement for a phase 2 to return them … wonder who didn’t want to commit to that agreement. Wonder who the hostages relatives are angry with.

praying that tonight is a peaceful night for those in Gaza.

How many Israelis were murdered last night? Because this thread is about the 400 Palestinians that were murdered. That’s what this thread is acknowledging.

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/statement-unicef-executive-director-catherine-russell-attacks-gaza

The strikes caused the single highest child death toll in the last year. How exactly is murdering sleeping Palestinian children helping Israeli hostages?

Yet all the bombing could stop if only they would hand over the hostages.

Bombing would stop if Israel left Gaza.

both steps were agreed in phase 2

Hamas are relevant to this thread, as shown in the BBC link that OP provided in their first post

More than 400 people have been killed and hundreds injured by Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Israel, Hamas and the US have exchanged accusations throughout the day. In a statement on Tuesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had resumed combat in Gaza with "full force", adding that the strikes were "just the beginning."
Netanyahu accused Hamas of rejecting proposals Israel had brought to ceasefire talks, saying negotiations would be done "under fire" from now on.
Earlier, Hamas accused Israel of attacking "defenceless civilians", adding that the US bore "responsibility for the massacres" in Gaza, after it emerged Israel briefed the US on the strikes prior to launching them.
US Ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea, on the other hand, blamed Hamas for the renewed fighting, claiming it had rejected every proposal and deadline in recent weeks.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/czje23jd779t

I agree with both @caringcarer that the bombing could stop if only Hamas would hand over the hostages but also with @EasterIssland that Israel need to leave Gaza.

Both parties had agreed that the second phase negotiations would include these things but the problem is, they don't trust each other.

Hence, negotiations for the second stage had stalled. Hamas wasn't prepared to release more hostages and Netanyahu wasn't prepared to instruct troops to begin to leave the Gaza strip without more hostages being released.

Thought Hamas had proposed to release American - Israeli hostages in an agreement with the American government

i think any agreement that returns hostages is better than the current situation

The parties had agreed that the second phase negotiations would include the release of all remaining hostages as well as a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza Strip, leading to a permanent end to the war.

The first phase finished on 1 March, but the negotiations for the next stage had made no progress.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6yp5d5v9jo

Indeed. However , America and Israel didn’t want to start phase 2 and suggested continuing with phase 1 which Hamas refused. The main difference between the rwo phases was that Israel had to abandon Gaza

That's what phase 2 of the ceasefire was about. If Israel would have gone along with phase 2 which Hamas agreed to the hostages would all be home by now and there would be no bombing. If this is about the hostages why did Israel not move to phase 2 as planned? Instead they chose to leave the hostages in Gaza and kill 174 children in one night.

@caringcarer

Why did Israel refuse to move into phase 2 that would release the hostages?

I think there is fault on both sides.

Netanyahu should have gone along with phase 2, rather than trying to gain new concessions from Hamas.

But equally, Hamas should have shown more willingness to release live hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. And shown more respect for the hostage process during stage 1, rather than seeming to mock and humiliate the hostages & make a spectacle of the handovers.

There is such a huge amount of ill will on both sides that stage 1 did nothing to help. With a complete absence of trust on both sides, it is hard to see how peace can ever be achieved.

No, it wouldn't. That's been covered before.

Not entirely. The Israeli government didn't want to progress to phase 2. They wanted to cancel the agreement and make a new one as per Witkoff's proposal, which would basically extend phase 1 but not include the assurances of a 'permanent' ceasefire because they wanted to retain the right to start bombing and killing more freely (the killing of Palestinians, including civilian children, did not stop with the ceasefire) whenever they wanted.

Ok this is my last response to you on this thread as calling people "ignorant" and putting words into my mouth that do not reflect my opinions is not helpful to the discussion and gets us nowhere.

I do blame Hamas for October 7th because they took the actions and took responsibility for them. But I don't want Palestinians to shut up and be quiet.

I would actually love peace in the middle east to be achieved through peaceful negotiation not violent actions but that seems very unlikely at the moment.

I agree the Israeli government didn't want to progress to phase 2 as I said on a previous post at 7.35 today Netanyahu should have gone along with phase 2, rather than trying to gain new concessions from Hamas.

Comment from the British ambassador to Israel

More strikes have happened today. At least 14 people have been killed

I'm decent, I've never torn down a baby hostage poster, held a placard comparing Jews to Nazis, screamed at kids going into Macdonald's or assumed that someone who disagreed with me on Mumsnet is morally bankrupt.

I’m decent. I’ve spent time in Israel. I’ve found decent people there, too. Netanyahu is morally bankrupt and leads a government of butchers.

Yeah, things have been going just fine in Syria recently...