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Israeli warplanes pounded targets in southern Gaza the day after a truce with Hamas collapsed. Gazan health authorities said that Israeli attacks had killed more than 15,000 people since Oct. 7.

Beleaguered Gazans, having fled the territory’s north, emerged from a night of bombardment wondering where to go next for safety.

A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings.

Gazans were bracing for expanded hostilities on Saturday, a day after a weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas ended. Essential supplies were running low.

Scores of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees had been freed in the weeklong halt in hostilities, but Hamas and Israel could not find common ground for further exchanges.

Talks on extending a weeklong cease-fire broke down, with each side blaming the other. The truce had included the release of hostages held in Gaza for people in Israeli prisons.

American officials are making clear to Israel that it cannot pursue a campaign in the south that would have the same devastating consequences as in the north.

Israel and Hamas blamed each other for the collapse of a weeklong cease-fire that had allowed for the exchange of scores of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees.

The U.S. secretary of state went to Israel as part of a diplomatic push to extend a tenuous truce with Hamas, but in comments in Tel Aviv, he focused more on the next phase of Israel’s offensive.