Rafah: Five Palestinians on Wednesday were killed in Israeli bombing in the cities of Rafah and Gaza, according to WAFA correspondent. She reported that an Israeli combat drone dropped grenades on a tent sheltering displaced people in the Mawasi area of Rafah, resulting in two fatalities and injuring dozens.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, the Israeli occupation forces also targeted a tent sheltering displaced people on Al-Sikka Street in Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Strip, claiming the lives of two individuals. Additionally, the house of the Abu Aitah family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest of Gaza City, was targeted, killing a family member and injuring others.
Israel ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement unilaterally and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, with a wave of airstrikes that resulted in at least 11,615 deaths and 49,204 injuries, according to medical sources. In the past 24 hours alone, Gaza hospitals admitted the bodies of 113 slain Palestinians and 304 casualties.
Furthermore, within the last 24 hours, Israel killed 33 aid seekers and injured 141 others. This has raised the total death toll and casualties among aid seekers to 2,339 and over 17,070, respectively. Since October 2023, Israel's military onslaught on the Strip has resulted in the deaths of 63,746 Palestinians, mostly women and children, with 161,2450 others injured.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for and presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. The Israeli aggression has also caused the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from across the Gaza Strip, with the majority being forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt, marking Palestine's largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
