GAZA, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli shelling on Monday night targeted and injured a Palestinian paramedic while on a rescue mission in Gaza City, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

It said that PRCS paramedic Diaa Al-Bayouk suffered shrapnel wounds to his right shoulder from an artillery shell. He was immediately transferred to Al-Quds Hospital.

The incident occurred as Israeli forces intensively shelled the vicinity of the University College in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

Al-Bayouk, whose condition is reported as stable, was responding to an emergency call after a home in the area was targeted in the attack.

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.

The death toll reached at least 9,989 with 41,534 others wounded, according to medical sources. In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 69 slain Palestinians, including one retrieved from the rubble, and 362 casualties were admitted to Gaza hospitals.

Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 61,499 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 153,575 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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