Israel-Gaza updates: Israel says ground operation underway in southern Gaza
The IDF said it's carried out 10,000 airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.
The temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended early Friday, and Israel has resumed its bombardment of Gaza.
The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage during the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel. In exchange, Israel released more than 200 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.
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The latest outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs the Gaza Strip, has passed the four-month mark.
In the Gaza Strip, at least 30,228 people have been killed and 71,377 others have been wounded by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, according to Gaza's Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health.
In Israel, at least 1,200 people have been killed and 6,900 others have been injured by Hamas and other Palestinian militants since Oct. 7, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
There has also been a surge in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israeli forces have killed at least 395 people in the territory since Oct. 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The ongoing war began after Hamas-led militants launched an unprecedented incursion into southern Israel from neighboring Gaza via land, sea and air. Scores of people were killed while more than 200 others were taken hostage, according to Israeli authorities. The Israeli military subsequently launched retaliatory airstrikes followed by a ground invasion of Gaza, a 140-square-mile territory where more than 2 million Palestinians have lived under a blockade imposed by Israel and supported by Egypt since Hamas came to power in 2007. Gaza, unlike Israel, has no air raid sirens or bomb shelters.
Israeli woman speaks about young family still held hostage in Gaza: 'It's psychological torture'
Yifat Zailer, a relative of one of the youngest Israeli hostages still being held in the Gaza Strip, said Tuesday that she has yet to hear whether her missing family members will be among those released by Hamas as part of the truce.
"The pain of not having them back yet is incredible. Tomorrow is the last day of this deal of cease-fire and we are very concerned," Zailer told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an interview on "Good Morning America."
Zailer said there has been no word from Israeli officials or others on whether her loved ones will be included in the prisoner swap with Hamas. The last thing she heard about her missing relatives was in a recent statement released by the Israel Defense Forces that stated there was a possibility of another Palestinian militant group holding them hostage.
"We are completely at loss," she said. "We don't know about their condition, we don't know if they're still alive even and it’s unbearable. They promised in this deal they signed, all the sides, that all mothers and children are supposed to be released."
"Prisoners are being released," she noted. "Where's my family?"
Four of Zailer's relatives -- her 32-year-old cousin Shiri Babas, Shiri's 34-year-old husband Yarden and the couple's children, 4-year-old Ariel and 10-month-old Kfir -- were kidnapped from their kibbutz in southern Israel during Hamas' attack on Oct. 7 and taken hostage to Gaza. Zailer said she doesn't understand why they -- especially the baby -- are still being held hostage and wondered whether it was for "leverage."
"Kfir is going to be 11 months [old] soon. He was kidnapped when he was 9 [months old]. We don't know how he's being fed," she told ABC News. "Why aren't they on any list? Every night we receive that phone call that they're not coming back tomorrow is torture -- it's psychological torture."
When asked whether she would support a deal for Israel to release all of its Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the hostages in Gaza, Zailer said: "That's a really hard question, but I must say I am."
"All those hostages are fathers, mothers, injured people and, of course, my family members as well among them," she continued. "So there's no price for our loved ones."
Zailer said she wants the world to know that her captive relatives "are and always were people of peace" and "innocent civilians."
"My uncle raised his daughter to love who's different from her," she added. "She's an incredible mother, her husband is an incredible father."
-ABC News' Morgan Winsor
More Palestinians detained than released during truce, rights group says
The Palestinian Prisoners Society, a local nongovernmental rights group, said Tuesday that Israeli forces have detained 168 Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since last Friday, when the truce with Hamas went into effect.
During that same period, 150 Palestinians have been released from Israeli jails as part of the cease-fire agreement, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society.
-ABC News' Zoe Magee and Morgan Winsor
CIA director returns to Qatar for meetings on Israel-Hamas war
A U.S. official confirmed to ABC News on Tuesday that CIA Director Bill Burns is in Qatar's capital for meetings regarding the Israel-Hamas war that include discussions on hostages.
The CIA has not officially commented on the director's schedule.
Burns was previously in Doha for similar meetings earlier this month.
The United States, Qatar and Egypt have mediated the talks between Israel and Hamas.
-ABC News' Cindy Smith and Morgan Winsor
Talks underway to further extend truce, Israeli source says
Israel is open to extending the cease-fire with Hamas even further, as long as the militant group can free at least 10 Israeli hostages per day, an Israeli political source told ABC News on Tuesday.
The source confirmed that talks are underway on the Israeli side to further extend the truce, which went into effect last Friday and was set to expire Tuesday but both sides agreed to extend it by two days.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Morgan Winsor
Israel says it's started 'powerful' ground operation in southern Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces has started a ground operation in southern Gaza that "will be no less powerful than" the operations in northern Gaza, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said.
"We have the capabilities to do it in the most thorough way, and just as we did it with strength and thoroughly in the north of the Gaza Strip, we are also doing it now in the south of the Gaza Strip, and we also continue to deepen the achievements in the north of the Gaza Strip," Halevi said.
The IDF said it's carried out 10,000 airstrikes in the Gaza Strip since fighting began.
"The forces ‘closed circles’ and thwarted terror cells, terror infrastructure, operational apartments, tunnel shafts, weapons warehouses and more,” the IDF said in a statement.
-ABC News' Dana Savir