GAZA, May 25, 2026 (WAFA) – A Palestinian child was killed on Monday in an Israeli drone strikes on the vicinity of Street 5, west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that the child arrived at the Kuwaiti Specialized Field Hospital already deceased. The attack also resulted in 17 injuries and set several displacement tents on fire.

In the northwest of the Gaza Strip, Nidal Shalha succumbed to wounds he sustained days earlier in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a group of civilians near the 17th Roundabout in the Tuam area.

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced today that the death toll from the Israeli offensive on the Strip has risen to 72,797, with 172,821 injured, since the start of the offensive on October 7, 2023.

The sources reported that Gaza Strip hospitals received six fatalities and eight injuries over the past 24 hours, including one person who succumbed to previous injuries and five newly killed victims.

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