Israel announced a major new offensive in Gaza after launching a wave of air strikes on the territory, killing more than 100 people, a brand new effort to force Hamas to release the hostages.

In a statement late Friday, the IDF said they “launched a wide range of attacks and mobilized forces to occupy the strategic areas of the Gaza Strip, part of the Gideon chariots and the expansion of the campaign in Gaza to achieve all the goals of the Gaza War”.

The news comes after Donald Trump visited the region, which includes stops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, but not Israeli stops.

Earlier on Friday, Donald Trump admitted that people were starving in Gaza and claimed that the United States would encounter "care" in the territory.

"We are watching Gaza. We will be taken care of. A lot of people are hungry," the U.S. president told reporters in Abu Dhabi.

But discussions on Gaza's long-term future have faltered. On Thursday, Trump described his desire to turn Gaza into a “free zone”, a reaffirmation of a plan he proposed in February to give the United States control of the Palestinian territory to allow it to rebuild as a luxury leisure and commercial hub.

The NBC reported late Friday that the Trump administration is developing a plan to permanently relocate up to one million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya. The report said the United States is considering releasing billions of dollars in frozen Libya funds in exchange for Palestinian resettlement. The U.S. State Department did not respond to a request for comment.

According to the Geneva Convention and Roman Regulations, arbitrary and permanently forced transfer of populations is a crime of war.

There is a widespread hope that Trump’s visit to the region could lead to a new moratorium on hostilities or an update on humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Instead, the raids and bombings of the past 72 hours have brought violence above weeks, while the death toll came close in the first few days of Israel's renewal offense after a fragile ceasefire collapse in March.

Gaza Civil Defense Agency said Friday's strike killed 108 people, mainly women and children, while some officials in the Palestinian territory have killed as many as 250 or 300 people in recent days.

Health officials said at least 48 bodies were taken to Indonesian hospitals in northern Gaza, which took a strike in the suburbs of the central town of Deir Al-Balah and the southern city of Khan Younis.

In Jabaliya, a neighborhood in northern Gaza, where women were severely bombed for weeks, sitting next to 10 bodies crying with 10 whiteboards lined up in rubble and lined up on the ground.

Umm Mohammed Al-Tatari, 57, said she was awakened by a pre-dawn attack on Northern Gaza.

"We fell asleep when everything around us suddenly exploded...everyone started running...there were blood everywhere, body parts and corpses."

Israel's military said its air force has crossed more than 150 "terrorist" targets in Gaza.

Hamas still held 57 of the 250 hostages in the October 2023 attack on Israel, which killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Israel said the blockade and intensified bombings have been designed to put pressure on militant groups to ensure the release of hostages, since mid-March. It is believed that less than half are still alive.

According to the Ministry of Health there, Israel's retaliatory military offensive has killed about 53,000 people in Gaza, most of whom were civilians.

Israel's refusal to move to the scheduled second phase, which could lead to a ceasefire that took effect in mid-January after the war's certainty ended.

Israeli officials said the heaviest Israeli strike earlier this week was targeting the current Hamas commander earlier this week. Hamas denies Israel repeatedly accusing it of using civilians as human shields.

Netanyahu has said Israel has called on thousands of reserve personnel to conduct a new offensive, with troops continuing to occupy the territory and causing substantial displacement of the population. Israeli minister talks about “conquering” Gaza.

Edan Alexander is the last living American citizen it holds after Hamas released a direct interaction with the Trump administration on Monday.

As part of Washington's understanding of Alexander's release, Taher al-Nunu, a senior Hamas official, said the group "is waiting and expecting further pressure from the U.S. government on Israel" to open the intersection and immediately enter humanitarian aid."

Israeli officials have been denied that more than 10 weeks of severe blockade of damaged territory has caused hunger, and Trump's comments will be seen as further evidence of tensions between Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's closest allies.

Israel claims Hamas systematically seized aid to fund its military and other operations and has proposed a plan to distribute humanitarian aid from Gaza hubs operated by private contractors and protected by Israeli forces.

The United States supports the program, which is described by aid agencies as infeasible, dangerous and potentially illegal as it can lead to large-scale population transfers.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged the criticism Thursday, saying Washington "can be open to alternatives if anyone has a better one."

The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, established to manage the program, announced Wednesday that the foundation will begin operations at the end of this month and requires Israel to lift its blockade to allow assistance to reach the territory immediately.

Aid agencies warn that any delay will lose lives and cases of acute malnutrition, especially among young children, are soaring.

Israel polls show broad support for the new ceasefire to secure hostage release, but local media reports cited statements by anonymous Israeli and regional officials, downplaying any possibility of breakthroughs.

Households of Israel's main group representatives who are still in Gaza said Netanyahu lacked a "historic opportunity" to release them on Friday.

Violence in the occupied West Bank occupation by Yemen-based Houthi militias has intensified Israel's new missiles in recent days. Israel attacked Yemen's Red Sea port and Salif on Friday, continuing its campaign to reduce the Houthi military capabilities.