GAZA, August 22, 2025 (WAFA) – At least 47 Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured on Friday as Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling continued across the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.
In northern Gaza, the Israeli military targeted a group of people waiting for humanitarian aid, resulting in multiple fatalities and injuries.
In one of the deadliest incidents of the day, 12 people — including women and children — were killed in an Israeli strike on the Amr Ibn Al-As School in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. The school was sheltering hundreds of displaced civilians.
In the same neighborhood, five members of the Shahin family, including three children, were killed when an Israeli strike hit a tent sheltering displaced people on Al-Jalaa Street.
To the west of Gaza City, four members of the Al-Aswad family — a couple and their two daughters — were killed in an airstrike that targeted an apartment behind Abu Asi School in Al-Shati refugee camp.
In the Al-Sabra neighborhood, southeast of the city, an Israeli drone strike killed a mother and her son, while another strike on the Al-Amareen family home resulted in further casualties. A nearby four-story building belonging to the Al-Ja'al family was also destroyed.
The neighborhood came under intense artillery fire throughout the day.
In northern Gaza’s Jabalia town, witnesses reported the use of explosive-laden robots by Israeli forces to demolish residential buildings, in conjunction with airstrikes and heavy shelling.
In central Gaza, two women were killed and five others injured when an Israeli drone targeted an apartment in the Al-Ittihad Tower in Nuseirat refugee camp.
Further south, several people were wounded when an Israeli drone bombed a water desalination station west of Khan Younis, where displaced residents had gathered to collect water. Heavy shelling also hit the residential Hamad City north of Khan Younis.
Airstrikes also targeted the home of the Bdeir family in Khan Younis refugee camp, resulting in multiple injuries.
Since August 11, the Israeli military has launched a wide-scale offensive in Gaza City’s Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, involving home demolitions using explosive robots, artillery shelling, random gunfire, and mass forced displacement. The operation is reportedly part of a broader plan to reoccupy the remaining areas of Gaza.
On August 8, the Israeli government approved a proposal by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City.
The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in at least 62,192 documented Palestinian fatalities, with over 157,114 others injured.
Thousands of victims are feared trapped under rubble, inaccessible to emergency and civil defense teams due to Israeli attacks.
Israel's genocidal attacks continue unabated despite calls from the UN Security Council for an immediate ceasefire and directives from the International Court of Justice urging measures to prevent genocide and alleviate the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
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