On the second day of the Israeli military's resumption of its war on the Gaza Strip, as part of a military operation codenamed "Courage and Sword," the occupation's warplanes continued to launch raids on various areas of the Strip on Wednesday. These raids resulted in the deaths of 439 Palestinian civilians and the wounding of hundreds more.

A number of people were killed and wounded in a series of airstrikes launched by Israeli warplanes on various areas of the Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning. The raids targeted homes and tents of displaced people in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, north of the Strip, as well as in the Bureij refugee camp, the town of Al-Maghraqa, and the city of Rafah.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that 429 martyrs and 612 wounded have arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip as a result of the multiple attacks and massacres perpetrated by the occupation since the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The director of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, explained that "the health system in the Strip is unable to deal with the scale of the humanitarian disaster, with wounded people dying every minute due to a lack of resources."

"The Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have left the highest number of children dead in a single day in a year," said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.

In a statement, she explained that the information and footage coming from Gaza demonstrate the horrific nature of the situation. She added, "Reports indicate that hundreds of people have been killed, including more than 130 children. This represents the highest number of child deaths in a single day in the past year."

This comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the airstrikes launched by the Israeli army early Tuesday morning on the Gaza Strip were "just the beginning," claiming that the resumption of the war "was decided after Hamas rejected all proposals, and therefore, from now on, negotiations will be conducted under fire."

For his part, Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanou said that the movement was and remains keen to complete the agreement's stages, "but Netanyahu's personal interests and his desire to escape his crises have undermined the agreement."

Al-Qanou' added that all mediators are aware of Hamas's commitment to the terms of the agreement despite Netanyahu's procrastination and coup, and they must reveal this to the world.