Israeli Bombing Claims Life of Palestinian Minor in Southern Gaza Strip

Gaza City: Israeli bombing on Friday morning killed a Palestinian minor to the northwest of Khan Younes in the southern war-torn Gaza Strip. Omar Raed al-Qatati was killed by Israeli army gunfire to the northwest of the city, at a time when Israeli aerial and artillery bombardment continued to target Central and Northern Khan Younes, as fighter jets continued to hover in the skies. According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians, including over 100 children. The death toll reached at least 4,402, with 13,489 others wounded, as reported by medical sources. Emergency teams are attempting to recover victims still trapped beneath the rubble. In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 70 slain Palestinians, including three bodies retrieved from the rubble, and 189 casualties were admitted to hospitals in th e Strip, noting that these numbers exclude the fatalities and casualties in the northern Strip due to inaccessibility. The aggression was resumed amidst concerns over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip given the ongoing siege and ban on the entry of medical and humanitarian aid. Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing at least 54,677 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 125,530 others. Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt, in what has become Palestine's largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.