ADDS NAME OF THE MAN - EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT.- Eyad Abu Jazar holds the body of a child he believed to be his nephew, who was also killed in Israeli army airstrikes, at the hospital morgue in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh)

The airstrikes were the latest in what have been frequent and often deadly attacks by Israeli forces during the fragile cease-fires in Gaza and Lebanon.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he had ordered the aerial attacks after Hamas’s “repeated refusal” to release the remaining hostages it holds. “This is just the beginning,” he said.