GAZA, February 17, 2025 (WAFA) – Two Palestinians were Monday died from their wounds they sustained two days ago in the governorates of Rafah and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent said that the two slain people were injured by the Israeli bullets and shelling in Rafah and Khan Yunis.

Yesterday evening, local resident Hani Awad Abu Halawa (Al-Shaer) died from wounds he sustained last Wednesday as a result of the occupation forces' shelling east of Rafah city.

The occupation's gunboats fired their machine guns towards the beach of Khan Yunis city, south of the Strip, and towards the beach of Rafah, while the occupation's vehicles fired flares into the sky of Al-Ezba area west of Rafah.

The Israeli vehicles stationed east of Beit Hanoun town, north of the Strip, also fired their machine guns towards the citizens' lands in the town.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation has launched a war of genocide on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of 48,271 citizens, the majority of whom are children and women, and the injury of 111,693 others, in an incomplete toll, as a number of victims are still under the rubble, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.

K.T