March 18, 2025 · Gaza Strip Theater
March 18, 2025
With phase two negotiations deadlocked, Israel resumed the air campaign on March 18, 2025, in one of the deadliest single days of the entire war. Strikes hit across the Strip without the evacuation windows that had preceded earlier offensives, and the ground operation followed. Aid entry was cut off almost entirely in the weeks that followed — a blockade Israel described as pressure on Hamas to release hostages, and which humanitarian agencies described as collective punishment of a population already living in ruins.
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