The Israel-Hamas ceasefire ended on Monday when Israel announced it was resuming airstrikes in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) wrote on its X account that it was "conducting extensive strikes on terror targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip." Israel pointed to Hamas’ repeated refusal to accept a hostage release and ceasefire extension as the reason for the return to war.

"Israel said, ‘Yes, we're willing to extend ceasefire and to have more hostages released,’ but Hamas said ‘no.’ Very clearly, twice Hamas said ‘no’ to the option of releasing more hostages and extending the ceasefire. So, basically, we are left with no choice, with no other option to release our hostages," Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Oren Marmorstein told Fox News Digital.

As of now, according to Marmorstein, Israel’s "war objectives" include securing the hostages’ release, destroying Hamas infrastructure and ensuring there "is no more threat of another October 7th."

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Marmorstein acknowledged that Palestinians were suffering, but placed the blame on Hamas for using Gaza civilians as "human shields." Israel has often pointed to Hamas’ use of civilian infrastructure, such as hospitals, in its terror operations.

Prior to the airstrikes, IDF Spokesperson for Arabic Media Col. Avichay Adraee issued a warning to Gazans in Arabic. In the past, Israel has also used Arabic pamphlets and other methods to warn Palestinians ahead of its operations.

The IDF’s translation of part of Adraee’s message reads, "For your own safety, move away to the known shelters in western Gaza City and in the city of Khan Yunis. Staying in the area marked in red may endanger you and your family."

When asked about the Hostages and Missing Families Forum’s statement calling for an immediate return to the ceasefire, Marmorstein insisted that resuming war operations would secure the hostages’ release.

"If you want to have the hostages’ release, you needed to go into this operation because Hamas was very adamant in their decision not to accept any offer, any offer to extend the ceasefire," Marmorstein said.

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Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, was trying to make a "corridor" between phases one and two of the ceasefire plan, which would have seen the release of more hostages, according to Marmorstein. The Israeli official said that the Jewish state accepted more than one U.S. proposal, while Hamas rejected them.

Marmorstein also said that Hamas "rhetoric" on the war "has nothing to do with reality," adding that statements from the U.S. indicate a "clear understanding that Hamas" is at fault. Additionally, Marmorstein told Fox News Digital that Israel consulted with the Americans, something that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told "Hannity" earlier this week.

"The Trump administration and the White House were consulted by the Israelis on their attacks in Gaza tonight," Leavitt told "Hannity" on Monday night.

When speaking to Fox News Digital, Marmorstein offered high praise for the Trump administration, saying that Israel "cannot hope for a better friend in the U.S."  Marmorstein told Fox News Digital that the relationship between the U.S. and Israel reached "new peaks" with President Donald Trump. He also said that Israel was "grateful" for the U.S. and Trump’s support during the war.

Marmorstein expressed confidence in Israel’s ability to defeat Hamas and echoed the message of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who said that Israel’s "secret weapon" was that the Jews had no other place to go.

"This is the fight that we were forced to fight and will win it. And I can tell you, I know we'll win it because of simple reason, we'll win this fight against Hamas and against Houthis and against any other terrorist organization, because we have no other choice," Marmorstein told Fox News Digital.

A crown over a soccer ball. An eyeball that “looked cool.” Flowers.

Those are some of the everyday tattoos that defense lawyers say helped lead to the sudden weekend deportation of roughly 200 Venezuelan men who are accused of being members of the ruthless gang Tren de Aragua.

President Donald Trump ordered the men removed from the U.S. and sent to a notorious El Salvadoran prison under an 18th century wartime law that allows noncitizens to be deported without due process.

The proclamation issued by Trump argued that the wartime law applied because the gang is “perpetrating an invasion” of the United States.

Most lawyers have dismissed that argument and noted that the government has not produced evidence to prove the men are gang members. The men were flown out of the country before they could meet with their attorneys.

Tattoos are signals of membership in some Latin American gangs, with the facial tattoos of the El Salvadoran group MS-13 perhaps the best known. Experts, though, say tattoos are not central to Tren de Aragua. They also note that tattoos, hugely popular all over the world, are often nothing more than body art.

U.S. officials have said agents did not rely on “tattoos alone” to identify gang members before the weekend flights. But lawyers and family members say tattoos were repeatedly used to argue that the men belonged to Tren de Aragua.

Take Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, whose defense lawyer said in a sworn declaration that authorities identified him as a gang member in part because of a tattoo of a crown over a soccer ball and the word “Dios,” or God.

Reyes Barrios, though, had been a professional soccer player and he chose that tattoo because the crown looked like the logo of his favorite team, the Spanish soccer club Real Madrid, his lawyer, Linette Tobin said in the filing.

She included a photo of the tattoo in the filing.

The crown looks very similar to the Real Madrid logo.

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