Interim US Ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Shea told the Security Council on Tuesday that responsibility for the resumption of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza last night "rests solely with Hamas."

"The terrorist movement Hamas has categorically rejected every proposal and deadline presented to it over the past few weeks, including a temporary proposal to extend the ceasefire beyond Ramadan and Easter to allow time to negotiate a framework for a permanent ceasefire," She claimed.

In her address to one of the Security Council's many sessions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Xi rejected accusations that Israel is indiscriminately bombing Gazans.

The US representative also claimed: "The IDF is bombing Hamas positions. Hamas is known to continue using civilian infrastructure as launching points for its attacks, and the United States condemns this practice, as should others."

It is noteworthy that the movement has not fired a single shot at Israel since January 19.

The Israeli occupation army resumed its war of extermination at dawn on Tuesday with a sweeping airstrike that killed at least 412 civilians, most of them children and women, and wounded 500 others, as a result of the intensive airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Tuesday.

The Israeli occupation army claimed on Tuesday that it continues to bomb targets belonging to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Islamic Jihad movement throughout the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military claimed that the targets it bombed over the past few hours included militant cells, weapons depots, and other military infrastructure used by Hamas "to plan and carry out terrorist activities and posed a threat to IDF forces and citizens of the State of Israel."

Hamas is insisting on adhering to the original ceasefire terms of the agreement signed on January 16. The first phase of the agreement went into effect on January 19, and the second phase was supposed to enter early March. That phase included Israel's full withdrawal from Gaza and an agreement to permanently end the war in exchange for the release of the remaining living prisoners. While Israel signed the agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long insisted that Israel will not end the war "until Hamas's governing and military capabilities are destroyed." Accordingly, Israel has refused even to hold talks on the terms of the second phase, which was supposed to begin on February 3 with US support.

Instead, Netanyahu pushed for the first phase (which concluded on March 1) in exchange for the release of more Israeli detainees. The United States embraced Netanyahu's approach, and a new proposal from Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, sought to achieve precisely that. Witkoff stated on Sunday that Hamas's response to the proposal was unacceptable.

Hamas had offered on Friday to release the remaining five American hostages, in line with what it had discussed during direct talks with Trump's hostage affairs envoy, Adam Boehler. Those talks collapsed after Israel leaked them to the press, prompting the Trump administration to abandon the framework by the time Hamas accepted it.

The Israeli occupation authorities threaten to intensify strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip unless Hamas resumes "real" negotiations.