“There hasn’t been a ceasefire as far as a stop to the violence against Palestinians from the moment that the ceasefire was announced to Tuesday when it was very clearly broken by the Israelis in escalating fashion,” said Yousef Munayyer, a senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington, D.C., who heads its Palestine/Israel Program.

Netanyahu said Israel would press ahead until it achieves all of its war aims — destroying Hamas and freeing all hostages held by the militant group.

Facing legal and political pressure at home, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to resume airstrikes has encouraged right-wing allies back into the fold.