Ceasefire talks reached a deadlock, and the Israeli army said it would expand its military operations in the Gaza.
On December 2nd, the Israeli army continued to attack many targets in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said that within 24 hours after the end of the temporary ceasefire agreement, it attacked more than 400 targets in the Gaza and destroyed 100 Hamas strongholds.
According to the health authorities in the Gaza, about 200 Palestinians have been killed and 589 others injured since the Israeli army resumed military operations on December 1.
Conflict dynamics
On the 2nd, according to a number of media reports, the Israeli army bombed the Gebali refugee camp in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and the Kamal Adouan Hospital and its vicinity, causing a large number of casualties. In addition, according to the statement of the Hamas Media Office, on the evening of the 2nd, the Israeli army also launched a fierce air raid on the carrara area east of Khan Younis, a city in the south of the Gaza Strip, and launched an attack on the Nuseilet refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army say it will expand its military operations in that Gaza.
On the same day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel had issued instructions to expand its military operations in the Gaza. He said that after the end of the temporary ceasefire agreement on December 1, the Israeli army had destroyed 100 Hamas strongholds. He stressed that he would continue to carry out ground operations in Gaza.
Hamas and Israeli troops exchanged fire in the northern Gaza Strip.
According to the video released by Hamas, on the 2nd, Hamas exchanged fire with the Israeli army in Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, hitting many Israeli vehicles and observation posts.
Hamas said it carried out a large-scale rocket attack on Tel Aviv.
△ Video screenshot of rocket attack over Tel Aviv city released by local Israeli social media
According to many media reports such as Arabiya TV, on the evening of the 2nd, Kasang Brigade, an armed faction under Hamas, announced that it had carried out a large-scale rocket attack against Tel Aviv. An air defense alarm sounded in downtown Tel Aviv, and Ben-Gurion International Airport was temporarily closed.
Ceasefire negotiation
Israel says the talks are deadlocked and the negotiating team leaves Qatar.
On the 2nd, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement saying that due to the deadlock in the ceasefire negotiations, according to the order of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the director of the Israeli Intelligence and Secret Service (Mossad) has ordered the negotiating team in Doha, Qatar to return to Israel. According to the Israeli side, Hamas failed to fulfill some provisions of the temporary ceasefire agreement and refused to release 17 detained women and children, which led to the suspension of the temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas: Only a comprehensive ceasefire will exchange detainees.
Later that same day, Hamas said that it would not exchange detainees with Israel before a comprehensive ceasefire. Hamas said that Hamas has released all the women and minors it has detained. The remaining detainees include Israeli soldiers and adult men serving the Israeli army, and the exchange of these detainees needs to be in accordance with the "new standards."
According to Qatar News Agency, Qatar Emir Tamim said on the 2nd that Qatar and all its partners will continue to mediate and try to restore calm in the Gaza.
Humanitarian situation
100 trucks of aid entered the Gaza Strip.
On the 2nd local time, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society issued a statement saying that on the same day, a batch of trucks carrying aid materials entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah port. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said later on the 2nd that it had received 100 trucks of aid through the Rafah port that day. This is also the first time that aid materials have entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah port after the expiration of the temporary ceasefire agreement.
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Near East: More than one million people are in shelters in Gaza.
On the same day, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) issued a statement saying that more than one million people had remained in the shelter in the Gaza, and the shelter was "overcrowded and limited in materials". Since October 7th, 111 UNRWA employees have lost their lives in the Gaza.
Circumjacent situation
IDF and Hezbollah exchanged fire at the border.
On December 2, local time, the Israel Defense Forces announced that it would carry out air strikes and shelling on Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon that day in response to Hezbollah’s earlier attacks on northern Israel.
According to the statement issued by Hezbollah in Lebanon on the same day, Hezbollah militants attacked several military targets in Jal Alam and other places in Israel that day.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Two Iraqi military advisers were killed in Israel’s attack on Syria.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement on the 2nd, saying that two Iranian military advisers were killed in Israel’s attack on Syria. The statement did not mention the specific circumstances of the attack.
Earlier on the 2nd, Syrian state television quoted the Syrian military as saying that in the early morning of that day, the Israeli army launched an air strike on the area around Damascus, the Syrian capital, from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights. The Syrian air defense system intercepted most of the Israeli missiles, and the Israeli attack caused some material and property losses.
Iraqi militia attacked the military base of American troops in the country.
According to a statement issued by the Iraqi militia "Islamic Resistance" late at night on the 2nd local time, the organization launched a drone against a military base near Erbil airport, the capital of Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. The statement said that the attack was a response to the resumption of Israeli military operations after the end of the temporary ceasefire in the Gaza.
This is the first time that "Islamic Resistance" has launched an attack on an Iraqi military base with American troops since the end of the temporary ceasefire in Gaza.