The temporary cease-fire between Israel and Hamas ended Friday morning as the Jewish nation blamed the terror group for “violating” the truce by launching rockets toward Israeli territory before the agreement expired.

In response, moments after the cease-fire ended, the Israeli military resumed its attack in Gaza,  launching airstrikes on the Palestinian territory for the first time since the pause in fighting began on Nov. 24. 

“Hamas violated the operational pause, and in addition, fired toward Israeli territory,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement around 7:15 a.m. local time.

“The IDF has resumed combat against the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza.”

Israel’s military said it intercepted the rocket fired from Gaza shortly before the truce was set to end at 7 a.m.

Israel then launched airstrikes on the community of Abassan in southern Gaza as well as a home in Gaza City, according to the Interior Ministry in Gaza. 

The sound of unrelenting explosions and dark black smoke once again filled the air over the Palestinian territory — a sign the war had resumed in full force. 

Back in Israel, near the Gaza border, sirens warning of incoming rocket fire — believed to be launched by Hamas — sounded in farming communities. 

The return of fighting marked an end to a seven-day cease-fire in a truce mediated by Qatar and Egypt that included hostages-for-prisoners exchanges.

The pause in fighting began Nov. 24 and was extended to a seventh day Thursday after Hamas agreed to release more Israeli hostages whom its terrorists had abducted from the Jewish nation during their deadly Oct. 7 invasion — in which they killed 1,200 people.

More than 100 hostages from Israel were freed in exchange for the release of 240 Palestinians who were held in Israeli prisons during the truce. Those freed by both sides were virtually all women and children. 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas did not meet its end of the agreement by releasing all women hostages Friday.

It’s unclear if the remaining women in Hamas’ control are IDF soldiers. But with fewer women and no child hostages remaining in Gaza, mediators had feared the negotiations would break down as Hamas would want greater stakes in exchange for the release of adult male hostages.

The weeklong cease-fire also allowed some desperately needed humanitarian aid into Gaza, where the Health Ministry says 13,300 people have been killed by Israeli airstrikes and thousands more are homeless after their homes were destroyed. 

The death toll is likely much higher as officials have had difficulty keeping track of the deceased since Nov. 11 and many more Palestinians are feared trapped under the rubble. 

Roughly two-thirds of the dead were women and children, according to the Health Ministry, which is controlled by Hamas but deemed reliable by the United Nations.  

Israel, which has promised to annihilate Hamas, is expected to launch an offensive against southern Gaza now that the truce is over after seven weeks of attacking the northern portion of the Palestinian territory — leaving it in ruins. 

The US, Israel’s foremost ally, has cautioned the Jewish nation to avoid killing civilians in its fight against Hamas. 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli officials Thursday and warned Netanyahu that the devastation Israel inflicted on the north cannot be repeated in the south, to which he said Israel had agreed. 

“We discussed the details of Israel’s ongoing planning and I underscored the imperative for the United States that the massive loss of civilian life and displacement of the scale that we saw in northern Gaza not be repeated in the south,” Blinken told reporters in Tel Aviv.

With Post wires