By — Nick Schifrin Nick Schifrin By — Solveig Rennan Solveig Rennan By — Teresa Cebrián Aranda Teresa Cebrián Aranda Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/war-returns-to-gaza-after-cease-fire-between-israel-and-hamas-ends Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Audio War has returned to Gaza after a week-long cease-fire. The pause saw Hamas release more than 100 hostages, Israel free more than 240 Palestinians and hundreds of aid trucks allowed into Gaza. Negotiators are working to reinstate the temporary truce that ended Friday, but the Gaza health authority controlled by Hamas said more than 175 Palestinians have already been killed. Nick Schifrin reports. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. Amna Nawaz: After a week-long cease-fire, in which Hamas released more than a hundred Israeli and foreign hostages, Israel freed more than 240 Palestinians, and hundreds of aid trucks were allowed into Gaza, war has returned to the region.Negotiators are working to reinstate the temporary truce that ended this morning, but the health authority in Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas, said more than 175 Palestinians have already been killed.Nick Schifrin begins our coverage. Nick Schifrin: Tonight, Israeli flares light up the Gaza sky, and Israel's Iron Dome above Tel Aviv intercepts rockets fired from Gaza. As war has re-erupted, Israel vows to continue its military mission. Benny Gantz, Israeli War Cabinet Minister (through interpreter): The state of Israel is committed to winning the campaign, and this victory includes both a supreme effort to return the abductees and also the removal of the threat of Hamas. Nick Schifrin: Israel and the U.S. said Hamas failed to produce another list of hostages to be released today and, before the cease-fire expired, began firing rockets from Gaza into Israel. By the end of the day, Israel said Hamas had fired more than 50 rockets into Israel.Israel immediately resumed it's air campaign. In the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the center of Gaza, crowds of men lifted the dead out of what Gazans say used to be an apartment complex. Residents told us at least 15 were killed in their sleep. Abu Ziyad, Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp Resident (through interpreter): There was no warning at 7:00 a.m. It happened right after the so-called truce ended. It was full of innocent children and normal civilians. Nick Schifrin: In Southern Gaza, residents walked through the rubble from an Israeli airstrike on what they said was another apartment building.Mahmoud Siyam spoke to us as Israeli drones arrived above. Mahmoud Siyam, Palestinian Politician: They thought this is a safer place to stay here. And, this morning, Israel attack without warning. We ask the international law, international — all over the world to stop this war. Nick Schifrin: Thousands of Palestinians fled their homes near the border with Israel along the main road leading to Khan Yunis.But, today, Khan Yunis itself was filled with smoke and grief. Wounded children arrived into a hospital. Even Gaza's most vulnerable were not spared the horrors of war. Lama Abu Mous, Wounded Palestinian (through interpreter): I found my mother and my younger brother. I don't know where my older brother is. Nick Schifrin: The U.S. has pressed Israel to reduce civilian casualties. And, today, Israel used new leaflets, declaring Khan Yunis a combat zone and urging Gazans to move south to Rafah.But even in Rafah today, this was the aftermath of what residents said was an Israeli airstrike.Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State: We saw Israel take steps immediately today to start to get information to people about where safe areas are, how they can get out of harm's way. Nick Schifrin: During his third trip to the region since the October 7 attacks, including a quick stop today at the COP climate conference in Dubai, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel bears a special burden to avoid civilian casualties. Antony Blinken: I made clear that, after the pause, it was imperative that Israel put in place clear protections for civilians and for sustaining humanitarian assistance going forward. Nick Schifrin: For hours today, Israel blocked humanitarian trucks currently sitting in Egypt from entering Gaza. But, tonight, U.S. officials said, at their urging, trucks would soon reenter Gaza.What the U.S. is also hoping resumes, the release of more Israeli hostages. So far, more than 100 have been freed, but Hamas still hasn't provided another list today, and claims it doesn't hold any more women and children, even though 10 to 20 are still believed to be held hostage. U.S. and Israeli officials don't believe Hamas ' claim.Israeli officials said half-a-dozen Israelis who disappeared on October the 7th, including Ofir Tzarfati, have been confirmed dead. Hamas today blamed Israel for the war resuming, but said it would continue indirect talks, mediated by Qatar. Osama Hamdan, Hamas Spokesperson (through interpreter): We believe that the Qatari side will continue its communications, and we will be ready to engage with them if the Israelis respond and cease the aggression. Nick Schifrin: Demonstrators in Tel Aviv urged the Israeli government to prioritize hostage releases. But Qatar warned that they are less likely now that war has resumed.For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Nick Schifrin. Listen to this Segment Watch Watch the Full Episode PBS NewsHour from Dec 01, 2023 By — Nick Schifrin Nick Schifrin Nick Schifrin is PBS NewsHour’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent. He leads NewsHour’s daily foreign coverage, including multiple trips to Ukraine since the full-scale invasion, and has created weeklong series for the NewsHour from nearly a dozen countries. The PBS NewsHour series “Inside Putin’s Russia” won a 2017 Peabody Award and the National Press Club’s Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence. In 2020 Schifrin received the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Media Award for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis of Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the NewsHour teams awarded a 2021 Peabody for coverage of COVID-19, and a 2023 duPont Columbia Award for coverage of Afghanistan and Ukraine. Prior to PBS NewsHour, Schifrin was Al Jazeera America's Middle East correspondent. He led the channel’s coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza; reported on the Syrian war from Syria's Turkish, Lebanese and Jordanian borders; and covered the annexation of Crimea. He won an Overseas Press Club award for his Gaza coverage and a National Headliners Award for his Ukraine coverage. From 2008-2012, Schifrin served as the ABC News correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2011 he was one of the first journalists to arrive in Abbottabad, Pakistan, after Osama bin Laden’s death and delivered one of the year’s biggest exclusives: the first video from inside bin Laden’s compound. His reporting helped ABC News win an Edward R. Murrow award for its bin Laden coverage. Schifrin is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of the Overseas Press Club Foundation. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a Master of International Public Policy degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). @nickschifrin By — Solveig Rennan Solveig Rennan Solveig Rennan is an associate producer for the PBS NewsHour. By — Teresa Cebrián Aranda Teresa Cebrián Aranda Teresa is a Producer on the Foreign Affairs & Defense Unit at PBS NewsHour. She writes and produces daily segments for the millions of viewers in the U.S. and beyond who depend on PBS NewsHour for timely, relevant information on the world’s biggest issues. She’s reported on authoritarianism in Latin America, rising violence in Haiti, Egypt’s crackdown on human rights, Israel’s judicial reforms and China’s zero-covid policy, among other topics. Teresa also contributed to the PBS NewsHour’s coverage of the war in Ukraine, which was named recipient of a duPont-Columbia Award in 2023, and was part of a team awarded with a Peabody Award for the NewsHour’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.