Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a renewal of strikes on Gaza as he vowed to destroy Hamas.

The Israeli Prime Minister defended the resumption of airstrikes in the heavily bombarded enclave, saying that negotiations on restoring the ceasefire would continue "only under fire."

The move breaking the ceasefire was met with condemnation from charities and other countries in the region, including Turkey and the UAE.

Hamas, which still holds 59 of the 250 or so hostages Israel says the group seized in its October 7, 2023 attack, accused Israel of jeopardising efforts by mediators to negotiate a permanent deal to end the fighting, but the group made no threat of retaliation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Palestinians make their way to flee their homes, after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for a number of neighborhoods

Israeli soldiers operate at a post on the Israeli side of the border between Israel and Gaza

Palestinians make their way to flee their homes

Gaza hospitals already reeling from weeks of an aid blockade, medics and health authorities said on Tuesday, as ambulances ferried in hundreds of badly injured survivors.

Mohammad Qishta, a Medicins Sans Frontieres emergency doctor working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, told reporters: "We received no less than 400 cases in less than two hours.

"There were some serious cases such as burns...third degree burns on the face, amputations, wounds on the head, wounds on the chest."