News desk :For residents of Gaza and southern Israel, the fleeting period of calm is over.The Israeli military said it carried out strikes on in Gaza on Friday in alleging a barrage of rocket fire by Palestinians after a three-day truce in the region came to an end without a longer-term agreement.More than 33 rockets were fired at Israel after the cease-fire expired the military claimed Friday morning.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon ordered the military to respond forcefully to the resumption in rocket fire, Israeli officials said.Several explosions were heard in Gaza City as Israeli fighter jets flew overhead. Local media reported airstrikes elsewhere in the territory. One strike in Gaza City killed a 10-year-old boy, said Ashraf el-Qedra, a spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health.Hamas, the Islamic group that holds power in Gaza, said that Palestinian officials at peace talks in Cairo hadn’t agreed to extend the truce but would continue negotiations.But Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev told CNN that the resumption of rocket fire means Hamas has “broken the fundamental premise of the talks in Cairo.”Hamas denies responsibility for the rockets fired before the cease-fire ended, said Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for the group. The allegations “are based on Israeli reports aimed at confusing the situation,” the Gaza-based spokesman said.The reports of rocket fire came as hopes faded for an agreement to extend the Egyptian-brokered cease-fire, which began Tuesday.Under the truce, Israeli and Palestinian delegations held indirect talks in Cairo through Egyptian go-betweens. But the two sides appeared to be too far apart in their positions.Despite the lack of a breakthrough in the talks, Israel had said Thursday that it was willing to extend the cease-fire unconditionally. The country’s military said earlier in the week that it had achieved its goal of destroying Hamas’ network of tunnels that extends under the border into Israel. “Talks are not dead” Saeb Erakat, a veteran Palestinian negotiator told CNN. The lack of a deal appears to be reviving a conflict that brought death and destruction to large areas of Gaza and thousands of rockets fired at Israel. Renewed hostilities also deepen the misery for people in Gaza who were wounded, displaced or deprived of basic necessities by the first four weeks of fighting.
