Israel air strikes resume in Gaza amid rockets

Israel says it has resumed air strikes in Gaza after Palestinian militants fired rockets following the end of a three-day truce on Friday morning, the BBC reported.

The Israeli army called the renewed rocket attacks "unacceptable, intolerable and short-sighted."

Palestinian militant group Hamas, which dominates Gaza, earlier rejected any extension of the truce, saying Israel had failed to meet its demands.

Some 1,940 lives have been claimed in four weeks of fighting in Gaza.

Israeli government officials said they had pulled out of Egyptian-brokered negotiations with Hamas and the other Palestinian factions in Cairo, stressing they would not "negotiate under fire."

But Egypt called on both sides to return to the negotiating table.