Natasha Preskey & Jamie Ryan
BBC News and BBC Verify

The 27-year-old street artist and art student, Inbar Haiman, was kidnapped by Hamas from the Supernova music festival in Israel on 7 October, and was seen days later in a hostage video circulated on social media.

She is one of 16 women BBC Verify has identified as still being captive in Gaza, following the seven-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Israel's focus on securing the release of female hostages has raised and dashed hopes for the families of women who are still left behind.

"I'm really not ready for you to take away my hope to see Inbar come back," one of her friends wrote in another post three days ago.

Families waiting for loved ones to come home have become a great source of support to each other, says Gil Dickmann, whose cousin Carmel Gat has been captive since 7 October.

But now the war has resumed, Gil grows more and more scared for his cousin Carmel, who has not yet come home.

"We were very, very worried by the fact that the truce has ended," Gil says.

You can click here to read the stories of the Israelis who are still being held in captivity by Hamas.

The Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson has posted maps on X, external highlighting what parts of Gaza Palestinians need to leave and where they must flee to.

Using multiple maps annotated in Arabic, Avichay Adraee tells people living in several neighbourhoods including Jabalia and Shujaiya to move to different areas.

Maps of southern Gaza demanded that Palestinians in several neighbourhoods, including Bani Suhaila near Khan Younis, should move to shelters in Rafah on the border with Egypt - one of several parts of the southern strip Israel has bombed since the ceasefire expired on Friday.

Rushdi Abu Alouf

Image source, AFP

Last night, the four main areas of eastern Khan Younis witnessed the heaviest air strikes since the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

More than 50 air raids and dozens of artillery shells hit buildings, main streets, Hamas-run government headquarters, and agricultural fields.

On Friday, the Israeli army dropped leaflets over the four villages in the area of Khan Younis asking people to leave. As the sun rose, hundreds of residents were seen leaving to the western part of the city, which already houses more than 1.2 million Palestinians, most of whom were forced by Isreal to leave their homes in the north.

Some of them were seen walking their cows, donkeys and sheep as most residents are farmers.

The displaced people in the west of Khan Younis are living in miserable humanitarian conditions, without enough water, food, blankets and suitable clothing for the winter.

“We left our houses under the bombardment, the bombs were flying over our heads. I carried my little girl on my shoulder and ran away,” says Hossam Al-Maghrabi 38, father of five.

“I thank God that I have a little fuel in my car. I left my home in Gaza City when we were forced to go south, now we have to leave again.”

Hugo Bachega
Middle East correspondent, reporting from Jerusalem

Image source, AFP

The Israeli military resumed its war against Hamas in Gaza with force, saying it struck 400 “terror targets” across the territory since the end of the ceasefire yesterday.

Overnight, fighter jets hit positions in southern Gaza, which is likely to be the focus of the next phase of the Israeli offensive. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering there, after fleeing the north.

The attacks targeted areas around Khan Younis, where some members of the Hamas leadership are believed by Israel to be hiding. Parts of northern Gaza, where Israeli troops are carrying out a ground offensive, have also been hit with artillery and tank fire, the Israeli military said.

Across the territory, the humanitarian crisis continues. Hospitals, already on the verge of collapse, are crowded with civilian casualties from the strikes, many of them children.

The UN said no aid was sent to Gaza from Egypt yesterday, and the Palestinian Red Crescent said it had no guarantees that any supplies would be delivered today.

The US, one of Israel’s main supporters, has told Israeli authorities they must do more to protect the civilian population of Gaza. The message has been that the Israeli military should not repeat in the south what it did in the north.

Leaflets were dropped in areas around Khan Younis yesterday, with a QR code directing people to an online map of Gaza, broken down into hundreds of blocks, to direct people where to go. Internet and electricity are limited in Gaza so many are questioning whether this will be enough.

As we've been reporting, Israeli strikes have targeted areas across Gaza as its renewed bombardment of the territory continues for a second day.

Some of the heaviest bombing has been in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

Image source, AFP

Image source, Reuters

Image source, Getty Images

Image source, Getty Images

Jeremy Bowen
International Editor

In the end it was a diplomatic achievement that the ceasefire lasted as long as it did. Now, after a seven-day pause, Israel and Hamas are facing their greatest military and political challenges.

For Hamas, it is the fight to survive. As long as a Hamas gunman can pull a trigger or launch a rocket into Israel it will claim to be undefeated.

For all its overwhelming military power, Israel's task is more complicated.

Its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, swore "mighty vengeance" after Hamas breached the border and killed around 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians, on 7 October.

In the first hours after the Israeli military went back on the offensive, the government recommitted itself to its war aims in a WhatsApp post: "Releasing the hostages, eliminating Hamas and ensuring that Gaza never again constitutes a threat to the residents of Israel."

Read the full article here.

Image source, Getty Images

Since the temporary ceasefire ended on Friday, Israel has attacked more than 400 targets in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said.

According to the IDF statement, air, naval and ground forces have targeted Gaza, including areas in the south of the Strip.

“Fighter jets hit more than 50 targets in an extensive attack in the Khan Younis area," it said.

Khan Younis marina was another target for the Israeli forces.

The statement said that air strikes targeted a mosque in northern Gaza, claiming that it was used by the Islamic Jihad group as an operational command center. The BBC cannot verify the claims independently.

After Israel’s commands for the people in northern Gaza to evacuate to the south, hundreds of thousands of Gazans took refuge in the southern city of Khan Younis, mostly in makeshift tents and shelters provided by the UN.

Good morning and welcome back to our live coverage.

It’s 07:00 in the UK and 09:00 in Gaza, where Israel’s bombardment is continuing into its second day after the week-long ceasefire between Israel and Hamas collapsed.

The Hamas-run health ministry says hundreds more Palestinians have been killed over the past two days, adding to the thousands killed in Israel’s military offensive since 7 October.

Israel is striking targets all over the Gaza Strip – including the south, where it had asked Palestinians from the north to flee – and UN Secretary General António Guterres has described the situation as an "an epic humanitarian catastrophe".

Stay with us as we bring you the latest updates.

Image source, Reuters

It's the early hours of the morning in Israel and Gaza. Let's look back at some of the key developments of the past 24 hours:

• After seven days of ceasefire, fighting resumed between the two sides. Israel and Hamas have blamed each other for failing to agree an extension
• The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said 178 people had been killed in the renewed bombing. The Israeli military earlier said it had struck 200 "terror targets"
• Israel intercepted rockets that were fired over the boundary
• A source told the BBC that talks aimed at extending the ceasefire in Qatar have collapsed, however the US says it is still working to try to restore the pause in hostilities
• The Israelis confirmed six more deaths in Gaza of hostages taken by Hamas in its attacks on 7 October
• The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said Israel has prevented aid from entering Gaza "until further notice"
• People sheltering in some areas of southern Gaza received leaflets from the Israeli military urging them to leave and head further south to Rafah, near the Egypt border
• An Israeli government adviser said intelligence failures that allowed Hamas to launch its attack on 7 October were paid for in "the blood of our people"

Image source, Getty Images

Image source, Hostages And Missing Families Forum

The death in Gaza of Ofra Keidar has been confirmed by her kibbutz and the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum. Hers was the sixth hostage death announced by the Israelis on Friday.

Keidar, 70, is said to have been on a walk on 7 October when she was abducted. She managed to call her family, telling them Hamas was shooting at her.

Her husband Sami was killed in their family home in Kibbutz Be'eri, and her daughter Yael survived after barricading herself in a shelter.

We earlier reported on the other five hostages whose deaths were confirmed today:

• Arye Zalmanovich, 85
• Eliyahu Margalit,75
• Guy Iluz, 26
• Maya Goren, 56
• Ronen Engel, 55

Image source, Getty Images

The UN says Israeli has refused to renew the visa of the UN's top humanitarian aid official for the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

It says Israeli officials are planning to let the paperwork of Lynn Hastings expire later this month.

In October, the Israeli foreign ministry accused Hastings of failing to be impartial and objective - a charge the UN denied.

Hastings has served as the deputy special coordinator for the Middle East peace process and UN humanitarian coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory for nearly three years.

A UN spokesperson said: "You've seen some very public attacks on Twitter against her which were utterly unacceptable." The spokesperson went on to say attacks on UN personnel around the world put "lives at risk".

The Israeli foreign ministry has not yet commented.

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent, reporting from Jerusalem

After a respite that lasted one precious week, the sound of war returned to the Gaza Strip on Friday.

Israel had been warning of this for days. It said its warplanes attacked 200 targets throughout Gaza.

Children were once again among the dead and the wounded. Hospitals, already overcrowded, were full of chaotic scenes.

For the first time in a week, aid deliveries ground to a halt. Gazans appealed for the bombardment to stop.

Amid disagreements over the release of hostages, Israel and Hamas blamed each other for breaking the terms of the truce.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said his country would continue to pursue a process that had worked, successfully, for seven days. But a source close to the ceasefire talks in Qatar said negotiations had collapsed.

Late in the evening, reports from Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, spoke of some of the heaviest bombardment yet.

Image source, Getty Images

Image source, Getty Images

Humanitarian organisations were able to bring some critical supplies into Gaza during the seven-day truce, but have warned that with the resumption of fighting, those supplies will run out again very quickly.

"There were some convoys that made it to hospitals in the north, but it was insufficient given the numbers of civilian casualties, especially now that fighting has resumed. Those supplies will run out very quickly," Save the Children's Jason Lee told a virtual press conference from a shelter in Gaza.

Other trucks brought supplies to the south, and were distributed through UN shelters and to households, he added.

Calling for a permanent ceasefire, Lee said the seven-day pause was not enough to get all the critical supplies needed to Gaza's north, nor was it enough for the organisation to adequately resume its operations.

"We have done what we could [in the last seven days] but it is not enough," he said.

Rockets have been seen flying over an area near the boundary on Friday night - before being intercepted.

In further comments to The Context on BBC News, Regev addresses the Israeli intelligence failures that allowed Hamas to launch its unprecedented assault nearly eight weeks ago.

The senior adviser to the Israeli PM was asked about a report in the New York Times, external on Thursday, which alleged that an Israeli colonel knew more than a year ago that Hamas was planning a wide-ranging attack on an unspecified date.

Regev responded: "7 October was a terrible, horrific day for Israel and we paid for our failure in the blood of our people. That's the bottom line.

"From an Israeli perspective, it was just like Yom Kippur in 1973 when we were attacked from the north by Syria, and Egypt in the south, and they took us by surprise as well," he said.

"It's clear there was a failure and, like in 1973, when the war is over I'm sure there will be a commission of inquiry."

We've just heard from Mark Regev, senior adviser to the Israeli prime minister, on BBC News programme The Context.

He said Hamas had the opportunity to continue the pause today, if it had freed more hostages. "They have close to 20 women [eligible for release] in the framework of the existing agreement, yet they chose not to do so," Regev said.

Asked whether those women were civilians or Israeli soldiers, Regev said some of the women were in their 20s and had finished their military service.

For its part, Hamas says it did make several offers regarding further hostage releases - all of which were rejected by Israel.

Adnan El-Bursh
BBC Arabic, reporting from Gaza

Um Shadi al-Tarabish sits outside washing clothes in a small bucket. Nearby is a tent made of plastic sheeting, where 14 members of her family are now living - including her one-year-old granddaughter, Misk.

"When it rains, my husband and I each use a broom to lift the top of the tent to the get rid of the water. I'm afraid that it will collapse with the weight," she says.

The tent is in a refugee camp behind the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. It is surrounded by rubbish, and the rain has seeped inside - making it impossible to stay dry.

There are daily queues for water and a communal toilet a long way from the tent is "not usable by any human standards". Looking after Misk is hard. "Just this morning I had to bathe the baby with freezing water," she says. They use a wood fire to cook and boil drinking water.

"We expected to find shelter but people told us the shelters were full," she continues. "We want to go back home. We feel like strangers here."

Image source, EPA

Image source, EPA

The United States is working with Israeli to allow aid back into Gaza, but Hamas has a role to play, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby has said at a press briefing.

Kirby blamed Hamas - echoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken - for the two sides' failure to extend a humanitarian truce in the Palestinian enclave, which lasted a week.

He said the US was still working to try and restore a humanitarian pause in Gaza.

The US wants aid to start flowing back into the Gaza Strip as soon as possible, but Kirby said Hamas had to produce a list of hostages to be released - something he said the group had failed to do by the latest deadline.

Image source, Reuters

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says Israel has blocked humanitarian aid from reaching the Gaza Strip "until further notice".

In a series of posts on X, external, the charity says Israel "informed all organizations and entities operating at the Rafah border crossing that the entry of aid trucks from the Egyptian side to the Gaza Strip is prohibited, starting from today until further notice."

The PRCS says the lack of humanitarian aid will lead to more suffering and an increase in "the challenges facing humanitarian and relief organizations in alleviating the hardships of citizens and displaced persons".

Another truce seems unlikely after talks reportedly collapsepublished at 19:23 Greenwich Mean Time 1 December 2023

19:23 GMT 1 December 2023

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent, reporting from Jerusalem

This evening, a source close to the ceasefire talks in Qatar says negotiations about hostages have collapsed.

Another truce does not, at the moment, seem likely.

These talks - which in recent days have involved top intelligence officials from the US, Israel, Egypt and Qatar - have kept a truce going for a week, allowing for the exchange of Israeli and foreign hostages for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

The talks have not been easy, but they have worked.

There have been rumours of a bigger deal, in which all remaining hostages could be freed. But no-one has confirmed that such negotiations have been going on, so it remains a rumour.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he hasn’t given up on the talks, but for the moment it’s the sound of guns - not negotiations - that prevails.