GAZA, June 6, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli strikes on Friday morning killed nine Palestinians and injured others in the cities of Khan Younes and Rafah in the southern in the war-battered Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondents.
They said that an Israeli combat drone targeted a charging point for cell phones between tents sheltering displaced people to the west of Khan Younes, claiming the lives of four and injuring others.
They added that Israeli forces opened fire at an aid distribution center to the west of Rafah, claiming the lives of four.
Meanwhile, rescue teams retrieved the body of a slain Palestinian from the rubble following Israeli bombing that targeted the Abasan al-Kabira town, east of Khan Younes.
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 4,402 with 13,489 others wounded, according to medical sources. Emergency teams are attempting to recover victims still trapped beneath the rubble.
In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 70 slain Palestinians, including three bodies retrieved from the rubble, and 189 casualties were admitted to hospitals in the Strip, noting that these numbers exclude the fatalities and casualties in the northern Strip due to inaccessibility.
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 54,677 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 125,530 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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