GAZA, May 16, 2025 (WAFA) – An Israeli airstrike on Friday killed seven civilians in Khan Younes City in the southern Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed since dawn to 103, according to WAFA correspondent.
He reported that Israeli fighter jets targeted a house and a civilian vehicle between the towns of Bani Suheila and al-Fakhari, east of the city, claiming the lives of seven civilians, including four children.
Medical crews said that they managed to retrieve the bodies of two fatalities from the rubble; one from the vicinity of the Abu Holi junction, south of Deir al-Balah, and the other from the site of the targeted house of the Abu Ammuneh family, east of the European Hospital, east of Khan Younes.
Meanwhile, a combatant drone opened fire at media personnel at the Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, at a time when Israeli artillery shelled the area to the north of Abasan al-Kabira town, east of Khan Younes, as well as the area to the north of the Nuseirat refugee camp.
This came as a combatant drone targeted tents sheltering displaced people in As-Sikka area in the Jabalia refugee camp, setting them on fire.
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 at least 2,985 with 8,173 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 at least 53,119 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 120,214 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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