The strikes came two months after a ceasefire deal was brokered to temporarily halt the conflict, with Israel's retaliatory offensive inside Gaza having killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza’s health ministry, and laid waste to the territory home to 2.3 million people, who face severe shortages of medicine, fuel and food.

Israel should be held "fully responsible for violating and overturning the agreement," a Hamas spokesperson said in a statement shared with Newsweek.