GAZA, March 21, 2025 (WAFA) – Several Palestinian civilians, including five minors, Friday were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential apartment in Gaza City, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that Israeli fighter jets conducted an airstrike targeting an apartment on Al-Jaru Street in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of the city, killing six minors and injuring others.
Meanwhile, Israeli artillery shelled a house sheltering displaced people in Abasan al-Kabira town, east of Khan Younes in the southern Strip, killing a mother along with her daughter and injuring others.
This came as an Israeli combat drone fired a missile at a group of citizens, north of Al-Maghraqa, resulting in a number of casualties. They were subsequently transferred to Al-Awda Hospital in the central Strip.
In the meantime, a young disabled man sustained an injury after being shot by Israeli snipers in the village of Al-Maghraqa, south of Gaza City. He was subsequently transferred to Al-Awda Hospital.
Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians, including over 100 children.
The death toll reached over 590 since Tuesday with over 900 others wounded, according to medical sources. Emergency teams are attempting to recover victims still trapped beneath the rubble.
The aggression was resumed amidst concerns over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip given the ongoing siege and ban on the entry of medical and humanitarian aid.
Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing over 49,617 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring over 112,950 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
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