Lucy Williamson
Reporting from Jenin, in the West Bank

Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails have told the BBC that guards carried out abuse and collective punishment in the weeks after the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October.

The prisoners - who were freed over the last week as part of the now-ended hostage deal - have described being hit with sticks, having muzzled dogs set on them, and their clothes, food and blankets taken away.

One female prisoner has said she was threatened with rape, and that guards twice tear-gassed inmates inside the cells.

The BBC spoke to six people in total, all of whom said they were beaten before leaving jail.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society says some guards are alleged to have urinated on handcuffed prisoners and that six detainees had died in jail.

In response to the allegations, the Israel Prison Service told the BBC all prisoners were detained according to the law and had all their basic rights legally required.

"We are not aware of the claims you described," it said in a statement. "Nonetheless, prisoners and detainees have the right to file a complaint that will be fully examined by official authorities."

Israel did not address our question about deaths in custody directly, but said that four prisoners had died on four different dates over the past weeks, and that the prison service had no knowledge of the causes of death.

• Read Lucy's full report from the West Bank here.

The government of Qatar has confirmed talks between Hamas and Israel to resume the ceasefire are ongoing.

In a statement, the Qatari foreign ministry expresses "deep regret at the resumption of the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip".

It adds that Qatar is committed to "continuing the efforts that led to the humanitarian pause" alongside its partners in mediating between Hamas and Israel.

But the statement also says that the resumption of bombing in Gaza after the end of the ceasefire "complicates mediation efforts and exacerbates the humanitarian catastrophe".

Qatar led mediation efforts to secure and extend the week-long hostage exchange deal, which ended this morning.

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent, reporting from Jerusalem

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Yesterday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken warned Israel that any resumption of military operations in Gaza would need to be very different.

Israel, he said, would need to "clearly and precisely" designate areas where civilians would be out of harm’s way.

This morning, Israeli jets dropped leaflets over areas east and north of the city of Khan Younis.

For the first time, they included a QR code linking to a map of the Gaza Strip, broken down into hundreds of separate blocks with numbers assigned to them.

In a statement, the IDF says the map is designed "to enable the residents of Gaza to orient themselves and understand the instructions, and to evacuate from specific places for their safety if required".

The new approach raises a host of questions.

This morning’s leaflets did not appear to refer to any of the numbered blocks. A message in Arabic merely told residents of four named (but not numbered) areas to "evacuate immediately and go to shelters in Rafah.”

It ended with the words: "You’ve been warned."

We’re getting more pictures from Israel and Gaza, showing the airstrikes and aftermath after the seven-day temporary ceasefire ended earlier this morning.

The Israel Defense Forces says it has "resumed operations" in Gaza and rockets have been fired to and from Gaza this morning.

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Imogen Foulkes
Reporting from Geneva

The resumption of fighting in Gaza is what UN aid agencies feared most. This morning a World Health Organization (WHO) team in Gaza described scenes in the territory’s hospitals as “like a horror movie”, even before the bombing started again.

In al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, which the WHO visited during the week-long truce, the team reported patients with “the most horrific injuries” lying on floors “running with blood”, while the bodies of those who had been killed were lined up in the car park outside.

Today the WHO was hoping to coordinate emergency medical teams to support Gaza’s few hospitals which are still functioning, but it says this is now unlikely.

Meanwhile Unicef says the aid that had been delivered during the last week had been vital, but not nearly enough.

The UN aid workers in Gaza are highly experienced, and will not be seeing conflict for the first time. What is striking is the real shock they are expressing now at what they are seeing.

Unicef spokesman James Elder, (speaking from Gaza to UN correspondents in Geneva) said that when the bombing started again this morning he “in an instant saw fear return and childhood retreat.”

Unicef has called again for a lasting ceasefire, warning that “inaction at its core is an approval for the killing of children.”

UN Secretary-General António Guterres says he "deeply regrets" the resumption in fighting in Gaza.

In a statement on social media, external, he says: "I still hope that it will be possible to renew the pause that was established.

"The return to hostilities only shows how important it is to have a true humanitarian ceasefire."

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 14,800 people have been killed, including about 6,000 children, since Israel began its campaign against Hamas in Gaza.

It began bombing the territory after Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping about 240 others. Over the last week, more than 100 of those hostages were released in exchange for the freeing of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.

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It's just gone midday in Israel and Gaza after a frantic morning,with fighting resuming in the early hours.

Here's where things stand.

Fighting resumes as Israel and Hamas trade blame

• Fighting has resumed in Gaza after a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that lasted seven days expired without a further extension
• Across Gaza heavy gunfire and many large airstrikes have been seen and heard, while rockets have also been fired at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip
• The Israeli military has blamed Hamas for violating the terms of the truce by failing to release all the female and child hostages being held in Gaza. It said rockets were fired towards Israel before the truce was due to end
• In turn, Hamas blamed Israel for breaking the ceasefire agreement, saying it had preventing fuel supplies from reaching north Gaza

Dozens reported killed and new evacuation zones

• Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says at least 30 people have been killed by airstrikes in the hours since fighting resumed
• Leaflets have been dropped warning people to the east of Khan Younis, a southern city, to head even further south to Rafah, near the Egypt border
• The IDF has created a new map dividing Gaza into hundreds of zones, which is says will be used to warn civilians of areas they need to evacuate in "preparation for the next stage of the war"

Negotiations continue and the US issues a warning

• Difficult negotiations to resume the pause in fighting are ongoing in Qatar, sources have told the BBC
• Before fighting resumed, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel that it had to protect civilians differently this time, saying the huge numbers of civilian deaths and mass displacement in northern Gaza could not be repeated in the south
• The UN children's agency warned of a humanitarian catastrophe, unless the truce resumed. A Unicef spokesman at a hospital in southern Gaza described the situation as terrifying

A European think-tank has told the BBC "it will be a blow" to Israel that it was not able to secure the release of all women and children hostages during the seven-day ceasefire.

Jane Kinninmont, director of policy and impact at the European Leadership Network, said that last night Israel would have been expecting to receive a list of people to be released under the terms of the hostage deal - but that did not happen.

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live's Breakfast programme earlier, she said it is hard from the outside to see "what Hamas wants to achieve" or what is motivating its leaders.

Kinninmont said there will be some within Hamas who want a ceasefire and others who will be intent on "destroying Israel at all costs".

She added that the group, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK and many other countries, may feel keeping some of the hostages gives them "leverage over Israel".

Anna Foster
Reporting from Sderot

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A little while ago, several very loud air strikes and huge plumes of smoke could be seen rising high into the sky above the north of the Gaza Strip.

We’ve also seen and heard rockets fired from inside Gaza towards Israel, with white trails and smoke clearly visible in the sky from the Iron Dome interceptions.

There’s no sign at all that this is fighting at a lower level post-ceasefire, it’s just as active here as it was during the earlier part of the IDF's ground operation.

Jeremy Bowen
International editor, reporting from Jerusalem

There was some expectation that there might be an extra day of the temporary ceasefire, but listening to the tone of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday, after he had a long meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the direction of travel was clear.

The Israelis have said consistently that after the pause - which saw hostage releases and access to Gaza for humanitarian aid - that hostilities would start again, they were adamant about that.

In addition, Netanyahu is under a great deal of pressure, particularly from the extreme right wingers who support his government, to get back to the war.

So for all these reasons, and in particular because Israel’s aim to destroy Hamas - set out at the start of the war - has not yet been met, the fighting was always going to restart.

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The Israeli military appears to have dropped leaflets warning residents of Khan Younis in southern Gaza to head further south for their safety.

Pictures are being shared on social media of the leaflet, which says Khan Younis is a "dangerous combat zone" and tells people in areas to the east of the city to head to shelters in nearby Rafah - close to the Egyptian border.

Similar warning leaflets have been dropped on some areas since the war broke out, as part of what the IDF says are "various means to avoid harming civilians in the Gaza Strip".

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The Israeli military has created a map of Gaza divided into hundreds of zones, which it says will be used to help people in Gaza escape future fighting.

Publishing the map with numbered areas marked online, external, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it has been made to help civilians prepare “for the next stage of the war".

The IDF says the map is split into recognisable areas to enable people to "evacuate from specific places for their safety if required".

Jeremy Bowen
International editor, reporting from Jerusalem

It’s absolutely clear this morning that war has resumed, despite continuing efforts by mediators in the Qatari capital of Doha to keep the ceasefire going.

It’s early days at this point in terms of the scale of hostilities: there have been air strikes in the south of Gaza and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said very clearly, and publicly, to Israel that while it has every right to defend itself and the US will support it in that, it needs to do it within international humanitarian law.

Blinken’s message is clear - Israel has to make sure it doesn’t kill as many civilians in this new offensive as it did in northern Gaza. He was very specific and said they need to nominate safe areas for people to go to.

But there is a very poor record across many conflicts of nominated “safe areas” - those with long memories will remember the “safe areas” of Bosnia, in the former wars of Yugoslavia, that were not safe at all.

We've just had another update from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, which says 32 people have been killed since fighting resumed around three hours ago.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says operations against Hamas have resumed to "strike them in their strongholds".

Lt Col Peter Lerner told Newsday on the BBC World Service that the IDF's goals had remained the same throughout the conflict - to bring back all of the hostages and "destroy Hamas".

When asked where they were hitting targets, he said he couldn't say directly because of "operational concerns", but said the IDF "operate within the realm of the laws of armed conflict".

"Hamas did not stand to their word, of their agreement, to release all the women and children," he added.

Hugo Bachega
Middle East correspondent, reporting from Jerusalem

The temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas expired this morning, despite intense diplomatic efforts to secure another extension. Sources familiar with the talks say Egypt and Qatar, which helped broker the initial deal, were still working to try to reach another agreement.

But these are difficult negotiations. A key element of the truce was the release of people who were kidnapped in the Hamas attacks on 7 October. More than 100 hostages were freed in return for Palestinians from Israeli jails.

The deal involved women, teenagers and children only. Most of the 140 remaining captives are men and Israeli military personnel. The indication is that Hamas is not willing to release them under the same conditions as the previous agreement.

The restart in hostilities is likely to worsen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, amid severe shortages of food, water and medicine and the critical state of the local health system.

The ceasefire allowed an increase in the number of trucks carrying aid to the territory, but the UN said it was still insufficient to meet Gaza’s aid needs.

Anna Foster
Reporting from Sderot

After seven days of ceasefire, the sky over Gaza is echoing with the sound of firing once again.

You can hear the loud bangs from outgoing shelling and mortar fire reverberating through the air, as well as the rattle of small arms fire.

There’s a plume of dark smoke rising up, and the whining noise of drones flying overhead has returned.

It’s a misty morning here and from this lookout point in the southern Israeli city of Sderot I can see straight across to the shattered skyline and broken buildings of the northern part of Gaza.

The military roadblock outside Ashkelon has also been put back in place.

Cars on the main highway are turned back as they head in the direction of the strip towards the military staging zone.

It’s the same area I saw IDF forces massing in at the start of the war, ahead of the ground invasion.

A spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 14 people have been killed in the territory in the first two hours since the temporary ceasefire ended.

In a post on Telegram, the ministry spokesman says dozens of people have also been injured in Israeli strikes.

James Elder from Unicef, the UN children's agency, told Newsday on the BBC World Service that the situation in south Gaza at the moment is "terrifying".

He said it was "horrendous for people" and that "you see the fear on their faces".

James says he is in a hospital in the south of Gaza, and that a strike hit 50m to 100m away from the facility.

He says the hospital was "overflowing" with thousands of people, and that some families have been living on mattresses there for weeks.

He described the end of the ceasefire as "the nightmare that everyone utterly feared" and warned that rain and poor sanitation would cause "deaths from the ground".

Sam Hancock
Live reporter

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A Palestinian man has described his time inside an Israeli prison as "not normal", after 30 more prisoners were released under the truce with Hamas.

Younis Hawamdeh told the Reuters news agency the unnamed facility had been a "tragedy" but did not elaborate.

Israel has said all its prisoners are detained according to the law.

Its prison service said on Thursday that it had freed more Palestinians, hours after Hamas let eight more hostages go.

Images showed emotional reunions between Palestinians and their friends and family. In one, a mother cries as she hugs her returned son, while the crowd around them applaud.

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