Hamas: Israel is opening the gates of hell

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said on Tuesday the Israeli regime had "opened the gates of hell on itself" through its latest killings in the blockaded territory and warned that the Tel Aviv regime would "pay the price for its crimes."

Israel renewed its military strikes against the Gaza Strip on Tuesday ahead of the expiration of a recently-agreed truce at 2100 GMT.

Three Palestinians, including a Palestinian infant, were killed in Israeli airstrikes against the besieged enclave on Tuesday.

The Tel Aviv regime claimed that the strikes were in response to earlier rocket fire from the blockaded enclave. "The rocket fire which broke the ceasefire also destroyed the foundation on which the talks in Cairo were based," Mark Regev, an Israeli spokesman, alleged.

Hamas, however, has rejected Israeli accusations that the Palestinian resistance movement breached the temporary ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Israel launched the strikes with the aim of sabotaging the truce talks between officials from Palestine and Israel in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.