Over a day after it restarted aerial bombings of Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have resumed "focused ground operations" in the "center of the Gaza Strip" over the past 24 hours.

As we observed earlier, clearly an indefinite all-out war is back on, and the collapsed ceasefire will not be put back together anytime soon. The IDF says it has "re-expanded their control to the center of the Netzarim" corridor, which is the buffer zone that separates northern Gaza from the south.

Withdrawal from Netzarim had been part of phase one of the 2-month ceasefire, thus much of the diplomatic work done during that time has now been effectively reversed.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz told the Palestinians that "the evacuation of the population from the battle zones" in Gaza will "begin again soon," in a video message Wednesday.