Israel-Hamas war LIVE: Israel confirms truce talks reach a 'dead end', calls back negotiators

The IDF, before the temporary ceasefire, said that a Hamas tunnel shaft was found by the troops of its 551st Reserve Brigade in the yard of a school in Gaza Strip's Beit Lahiya area and destroyed.

It said that the operations in the area surrounding Jabaliya were completed by the 551st Brigade. The IDF said that several Hamas operatives were killed by the brigade and weapons were seized during the operations.

The IDF said that the sirens which sounded in the Galilee were activated because of a combat helicopter which was downing a military drone with a technical malfunction.

The IDF said that the “interception was carried out in a controlled manner and there is no fear of a security incident.”

“The rocket and missile warning was activated due to the interception” amid fears of falling shrapnel, the IDF added.

French President Emmanuel Macron said that aim of Israel of eliminating Hamas will unleash a decade of war.

Achieving the “total destruction of Hamas” will mean “the war will last 10 years,” said Macron “So this objective must be clarified,” he added.

The IDF said it is carrying out artillery shelling and airstrikes against Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon while responding to the attacks on northern Israel.

The IDF said that many rockets were targetted at army posts along the border. No warning sirens were sounded during attack by rockets.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that it has “now received aid trucks through the Rafah crossing,”, which were sent by its Egyptian counterparts.

The aid coming from Egypt was briefly stopped on Friday (Dec 1) after combat was resumed by Israel and Gaza terror groups resumed as Hamas violated the terms of a week-long truce.

French President Emmanuel Macron called for intensified efforts to finalise lasting ceasefire in Gaza, a day after the truce between Israel and Hamas militants after a truce expired.

"This situation requires stepped-up efforts to reach a lasting ceasefire," to free all hostages taken by Hamas and allow entry of urgently required aid into Gaza, and to assure security to Israel, he said in a press conference, on the sidelines of the UN's COP28 climate talks in Dubai.

The Mossad said that a negotiating team, which was present in Qatar, has been asked to head home as talks on extending a truce reached a “dead end.”

“Due to the dead end in negotiations, and following instructions from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad head David Barnea ordered the negotiating team in Doha to return home,” said Israel Prime Minister's office, in a statement, issued on behalf of the spy agency.

“The Hamas terror group did not fulfill its obligations under the agreement that included releasing all the women and children that were on the list provided to Hamas that had authorized it,” the statement read.

“The head of Mossad thanks the head of the CIA, Egypt’s intelligence minister, the prime minister of Qatar for their partnership and the tremendous mediation efforts that led to the release of 84 women and children from Gaza, in addition to 24 foreign nationals,” it added.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps held Israel responsible of killing two of its members in Syria. There members were on an advisory mission.

"Mohammed Ali Ataei Shoorcheh and Panah Taghizadeh... were martyred by the Zionist usurper enemy while conducting an advisory mission in the Syrian Islamic resistance front," said the Guards' Sepah News website, without adding more details.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the pressure from the United States to cut historic ties with Hamas in the wake of war against Israel.

Top terrorism financing official of US Treasury conveyed Washington's "profound" alarm regarding the past relations of Ankara with Hamas during a visit to Turkey.

Erdogan said that Washington is aware about Turkey not seing Hamas as a terrorist organisation.

"First of all, Hamas is a reality of Palestine, it is a political party there and it entered the elections as a political party and won. We form our foreign policy in Ankara and design it only according to Turkey's interests and the expectations of our people," Erdogan said.

"I am sure that our interlocutors appreciate Turkey's consistent and balanced foreign policy steps in such humanitarian crises and conflicts," he added.

Lebanon fired two mortars at Israel's northern community of Shomera, said the military. The two projectiles landed in open areas and no injuries were reported. The IDF said that the source of fire is being shelled by the artillery.

The police detained six people who were protesting outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home located in the coastal town of Caesarea, said protest organisers.

The protesters were asking Netanyahu to submit resignation following the government's failures which led to attack by Hamas on October 7 in southern Israel.

Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Saturday that he had spoken with Isaac Herzog after fighting resumed and told him there could be no more killing of civilians.

"I've addressed my concerns about the fact that violence has started again and I've again repeated what I said at the Rafah gate: no more civilian killings," Prime Minister De Croo told reporters at the COP28 summit in Dubai.

Israel has informed several Arab states that it wants a buffer zone in the Gaza Strip once its conflict with Hamas ends, the news agency Reuters reported on Saturday (Dec 2) citing Egyptian and regional sources. 

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Israeli air strikes killed two pro-Hezbollah fighters near Syria's Damascus on Saturday, the news agency AFP reported citing a war monitor. 

"Two Syrian fighters working for Hezbollah were killed and seven other fighters working for the group were wounded in Israeli air strikes on Hezbollah sites near Sayyida Zeinab," said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Israeli military said on Saturday that more than 400 targets were attacked in Gaza since Israel's week-long truce with Gaza ended on Friday. 

The military said that air, naval, and ground forces were involved, adding fighter jets hit over 50 targets in an extensive attack in the Khan Yunis area

Hamas said on Saturday that 240 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since a pause in the fighting expired on Friday.

Another 650 people had been injured in "hundreds of air strikes, artillery and navy bombardments, everywhere in the Gaza Strip", Hamas said in a statement.

 A protester with a Palestinian flag self-immolated on Friday outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta. Addressing a press conference, Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said the protester, who has not been identified yet, was in critical condition. 

Hamas said on Friday that more than 170 people were killed in the Gaza Strip since the week-long truce between Israel and the Palestinian militant group ended. Five hostages held by Hamas were also confirmed dead. 

UNICEF spokesperson James Elder on Friday called the ongoing conflict a war on children. "We cannot see more children with the wounds of war, with the burns, with the shrapnel littering their bodies, with the broken bones. Inaction by those with influence is allowing the killing of children. This is a war on children," Elder said in a video on Instagram.

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The Israeli military on Saturday carried out deadly bombardments in Gaza. Addressing a press conference,  Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Jonathan Conricus said, "What we're doing now is striking Hamas military targets all over the Gaza Strip."

Israel has told the United Nations (UN) that it would not renew a visa for a top UN humanitarian aid official for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, a spokesperson said on Friday (Dec 1).

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Loud explosions were heard from the Gaza Strip as fighting between Israel and Hamas stretched into the second day on Saturday following the end of the ceasefire. 

By Friday evening, Gaza health officials said Israeli air strikes had killed 184 people, wounded at least 589 others, and hit more than 20 houses.

Areas near Damascus were hit by Israeli strikes, the Syrian defence ministry claimed. 

"At approximately 1:35 am (1035 GMT) today, the Israeli enemy carried out an air assault from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points near the city of Damascus," the defence ministry said in a statement. 

Though Israel has been targeting its norther neighbour since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, it has intensified the attacks since its war with Hamas. Iran-backed forces and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters are the primary targets. 

Outside the Israeli consulate in the US city of Atlanta, a protester with a Palestinian flag set herself on fire. She is in critical condition after a security guard at the scene intervened. 

“We believe that was an act of extreme political protest,” said Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum. 

Hezbollah claimed responsibility for firing a Katyusha rocket at the northern Israeli community of Dishon tonight, Ynet reports. Currently, there are no reports of injuries or damage.

The White House on Friday said Hamas was responsible for the breakdown in truce. "Let's be clear about this. It's because of Hamas that this pause ended, that they were just simply unable failed to produce a list of hostages that could help enable that pause from extending," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said. 

US added that it was working with Israel, Egypt and Qatar to restore the truce deal. 

Natthaporn Onkaew, one of the Thai hostages, freed by Hamas has described the experience as dying and being 'reborn'. 

"I missed home so much ... it's something you'd never expect would happen to you," Onkaew said after landing at an airport in northeastern Thailand. 

He said he was given food and water but didn't get to shower.

"We only got to brush our teeth," he said.

US spokesperson Stephanie Dujarric said on Friday that humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza is "an unknown" after the restart of the war.  

"We're worried because as we've been saying, everybody's saying, no, no place in Gaza is safe."

According to IDF, Hamas is holding at least 136 hostages in Gaza. Admiral Daniel Hagari, IDF spokesperson said the number includes 17 women and children. 

Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy speaking on the resumption of war said:  "Having chosen to hold onto our women, Hamas will now take the mother of all thumpings."

Hamas-run health ministry on Friday said 178 people had lost their lives in the Gaza Strip following the resumption of the war. The fight restarted after Israel claimed Hamas violated the truce agreement. 

Terror outfit Hezbollah on Friday evening said one of its members was among three people killed in Israeli strikes. The Iran-backed terror group identified the member killed as Mohammed Mazraani.

Hamas fired a barrage of long-range rockets for the second time as central Israel was surrounded by incoming rocket sirens.

The alerts were activated in Gan Yavne, Ness Ziona, Rishon Lezion, Yavne, Rehovot, Ashdod, as well as smaller towns in the area.