Israel says it has "renewed enforcement of the ceasefire" after deadly airstrikes in Gaza that tested the U.S.-brokered peace deal.

Israel's military said on Wednesday it would again observe the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip after carrying out a wave of deadly airstrikes in response to an attack that killed one of its soldiers. The health authority in Gaza controlled by the Palestinian militant organization Hamas reported 104 dead and more than 200 injured since Israel began its attacks on Tuesday.

An official of the Israel Defense Forces told NBC News that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for strikes in retaliation for a Hamas attack in Rafah.

Israel says it has restored the Gaza cease-fire after airstrikes killed more than 100 amid accusations of Hamas violations

Israel carried out powerful strikes on Gaza on Tuesday after a soldier was reportedly killed and Hamas handed over the wrong remains

Azaiza knows that he’s lucky to be alive. “My life is worth more now than if I was dead,” he told CNN earlier this month. “A lot of Gazans got killed. Nobody mentions their names.”

Israeli fighter jets launched air strikes in Gaza city on Monday night, official Palestinian media reported, despite a ceasefire with Hamas that has largely calmed two years of fighting.The Wafa news agency said its correspondent reported two attacks in the east of the territory's largest city.

Israel's intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip this week marked the most serious challenge yet for a fragile, U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

An Israeli airstrike killed a man in Gaza, health authorities said, as Israel and Hamas traded blame for daily violations of a fragile truce that has largely halted two years of war.