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fredericka witfield. israeli forces fire new strikes at gaza as fighting resumes following a weeklong truce between israel and hamas. those strikes include targets in southern gaza. it s an area that remained largely unscathed during israel s initial assault of northern gaza. talks of a new truce have reached, quote, a dead end, according to prime minister netanyahu s office. israel blames hamas for the breakdown in talks and accusing the terror group of not fulfilling its promise to return all women and children being held as hostages. the idf says there are still 136 hostages in gaza, including 17 women and children. 110 hostages were released during the week-long truce. let s turn to our team on the ground, ben wedeman in jerusalem, oren liebermann in tel aviv. tell us the latest on these negotiations to bring the remaining hostages home. reporter: the negotiations have all but collapsed at this point as benjamin netanyahu ordered the mossad to pull back its negotiations
the israelis are accusing the terror group of not fulfilling its promise to return all the women and children being held hostage. cnn s oren lieberman and matthew chance are tracking the latest from tel aviv. we ll start with oren. walk us through how these negotiations break down and what happens now. reporter: so the negotiations to this point focused on a very specific group of people, women and children. that was what the agreement was, to release 50 women and children at the start, and then ten women and children per day to extend the truce for 24 hours. this is where the disagreement comes in. israel and the u.s. believe that hamas is holding at least 17 women and children which would allow for at least one more day of pause. hamas says they re not holding women and children at this point and wanted to move the discussions on to elderly men as well as men and women who were soldiers. it is on that point that the discussions fell apart. hamas insisting that the women t
team 6 negotiators from qatar citing a dead end in talk as the idf strikes in gaza. this comes after a day s long cease-fire that led to hundreds of hostages removed from hamas. aishah. aishah: i m aishah hasnie. vowing to fight until the end and the forces will shift their focus to southern gaza. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live in israel with us now with the latest developments and greg, you said in the past couple of hours here, you can hear the fighting. it s amazing stuff, yeah, aishah. it s not a quiet night here. we re about a mile away from the gaza strip and yes, that temporary cease-fire between israel and hamas is over. the fight is on. the last 10 minutes, for example, we ve seen massive air strikes hitting the center of the northern gaza area. throughout the day, israel rile artillery, tanks, ships firing off the coast as well as a lot of ground fire presumably between the two sides. israeli military spokesperson confirming that we ve be