GAZA, August 22, 2025 (WAFA) – At least 13 civilians were killed and others injured today, Friday, in ongoing Israeli bombardment and airstrikes on Gaza City.
WAFA correspondent reported that five Palestinian civilians—a man, his wife, and their three children—were killed, and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent sheltering displaced persons on Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City.
Three other civilians, including a child, were killed and others wounded in Israeli airstrikes on the Al-Aswad family home in northern Al-Shati (Beach) refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
Five Palestinian civilians were also killed and others injured in Israeli shelling of the Amr Ibn Al-As School, which shelters displaced families in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.
Israeli artillery shelled Abu Iskandar neighborhood in northern Gaza City, as well as the Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods in the south, causing additional casualties.
Since August 11, the Israeli occupation army has been carrying out a large-scale onslaught on the Zeitoun neighborhood in southeastern Gaza City, involving the blowing up of homes using explosive-laden robots, artillery shelling, random gunfire, and forced displacement, as part of an Israeli plan to reoccupy the remaining parts of the Gaza Strip.
On August 8, the Israeli government approved a plan presented by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, the occupying power, has been waging a relentless genocide in Gaza, including killings, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders by the International Court of Justice to cease these actions.
The ongoing genocide has so far resulted in the killing of 62,192 civilians and the wounding of 157,114 others, mostly women and children.
More than 9,000 people remain missing, hundreds of thousands have been displaced, and famine has claimed the lives of 271 individuals, including 112 children.
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