GAZA, August 20, 2025 (WAFA) – Several civilians, including women and children, were killed and others injured since dawn today, Wednesday, as Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes across various areas of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that five members of the Daour family, including the mother, father, and three children aged four, seven, and nine, were killed when Israeli forces bombed a tent sheltering displaced persons in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.

Two more civilians were killed and several others injured when Israeli forces targeted the home of the Al-Masri family near Al-Samer junction, close to the Chamber of Commerce in Gaza City. Five others were recovered from under the rubble.

In Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, three civilians, including a mother and her two children aged three months and 10 years old, were killed in an Israeli airstrike that struck a residential house.

In central Gaza, one civilian was killed and others were injured after Israeli forces bombed a home in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, the occupying power, has been waging a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, including killings, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, in defiance of international appeals and binding orders from the International Court of Justice.

The ongoing aggression has resulted in the killing of 62,064 civilians and the injury of 156,573 others, the majority of them women and children.

Over 11,000 remain missing, while hundreds of thousands have been forcibly displaced. Starvation has claimed the lives of 266 people, including 112 children.

T.R.