Deir al-Balah: An Israeli airstrike Wednesday evening killed two Palestinian civilians and injured others in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, according to local sources. They said that Israeli occupation forces targeted a group of civilians in the city, resulting in two fatalities and several casualties.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, medical sources reported that the total death toll from Israeli strikes across the Strip since the dawn hours of Wednesday climbed to 37. Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of airstrikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians, including over 100 children. The death toll has reached 1,928, with 5,055 others wounded. Emergency teams are working to recover victims still trapped beneath the rubble.
Medical sources further revealed that within the last 24 hours, 39 bodies of slain Palestinians and 105 casualties were admitted to hospitals across the Strip. The renewed aggression has raised concerns about the worsening humanitarian situation in the Strip due to the ongoing siege and the ban on the entry of medical and humanitarian aid.
Since October 2023, Israel's military onslaught on the Strip has resulted in the deaths of 51,305 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuries to 117,096 others. Additionally, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for and presumed dead under the rubble of their homes.
The Israeli aggression has also led to the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip. The majority have been forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt, marking Palestine's largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
