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by IMEMC News
April 2, 2025

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At least 77 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza since dawn on Wednesday. making it the deadliest single day since March 18th when Israel broke its ceasefire agreement with Hamas and launched a series of airstrikes that killed over 500 civilians in a single day.

Each day since the 18th has been marked by dozens of casualties and forced displacement of thousands of Palestinians from one part of Gaza to another as they desperately seek out some place that is relatively safe from Israeli attacks.

On Wednesday, Israel fired a missile at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) medical facility in the Jabalia refugee camp that killed at least 22 people, including women and children. Those killed included 16 children, women, and elderly people, and a number of others were wounded in a new massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces.

Videos from the clinic showed the mutilated and charred bodies of the killed, including children. One of the victims was an infant whose head had been severed from her body. Residents struggled to identify the victims. The bombing caused extensive damage to the building, with flames rising from it.

Two citizens were also killed and others wounded when the occupation forces bombed a house belonging to the Daragham family in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, while artillery shelled agricultural lands in the town of Al-Fakhari, east of Khan Yunis, in the south.

Two civilians were killed, one of them after being shot by an Israeli drone in the Musbah area, and the other in Khirbet al-Adas, north of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

A Wafa news correspondent also reported that Yasser Fouad Hassanein was killed after the Israeli occupation forces opened fire while he was collecting firewood east of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. Another citizen was martyred when the occupation forces bombed the area surrounding the Omar bin Abdul Aziz Mosque in the Al-Sawarha area in the central Gaza Strip.

Medical and civil defense teams in Khan Yunis recovered the bodies of 12 martyrs, including children and women, from under the rubble of the Abdel Bari family home, which was targeted by the occupation forces. The bombing also targeted other homes belonging to the Al-Qaoud and Abu Talib families, near the Rafah garage in the southern Gaza Strip.

In the evening, a Palestinian citizen, his wife, and three of his children were killed Wednesday evening in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip. Another Palestinian was also killed and others were injured. Local sources confirmed the killing of Mohammed Abdel Rahim Shurab, his wife, and three of his children, after the Israeli occupation forces targeted their home in the Al-Manara neighborhood in Khan Yunis.

The sources reported that citizen Mohammed Al-Sayed (35 years old) was killed and a number of other citizens were injured, as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing a tent sheltering displaced people west of Khan Yunis.

Three Palestinians were killed on Wednesday evening in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. Local sources reported that the occupation forces targeted a group of citizens on Al-Manshiya Street in Beit Lahia, resulting in the deaths of three citizens, whose remains were torn into many pieces.

Israeli fighter jets also bombed a home in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood in the north of the enclave, killing at least three people and injuring 15.

Medical sources confirmed that 18 killed civilians, including women and children, have arrived at the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, since Wednesday morning.

A female citizen was killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment of a tent housing displaced persons in the Al-Mawasi area near Khan Yunis. At least eight citizens were also killed and others were injured in an Israeli army bombardment of the Al-Salam neighborhood in Khan Yunis.

Two rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel, causing no damage or injuries. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his forces are “seizing territory” to cut the Gaza Strip into separated enclaves.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,423 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 114,638 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.



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On Wednesday, the Israeli army continued its bombing and shelling of various parts of the devastated, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including children and women.

In Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, the army fired missiles at displaced Palestinians on Al-Manshiyya Street, killing three and wounding many others. Medical sources reported that the bodies of the slain Palestinians were severely mutilated.

In Jabalia, also in northern Gaza, the army bombarded a UNRWA building, killing at least 19 Palestinian civilians, including nine children, and wounding dozens.

Four Palestinians, including a child, were killed and many injured when the army bombarded Rafah and Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Medical sources confirmed that a child succumbed to serious wounds sustained when the army bombarded her family’s tent north of Khan Younis.

A woman was killed, and several Palestinians were injured when the army fired a missile at a tent housing a displaced family in Mawasi Khan Younis.

In addition, at least eight Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli bombing and shelling of homes and tents in the Al-Katiba area, west of Khan Younis.

Also, a Palestinian father, his wife and their three children were killed, and many were injured, in an Israeli bombing of Khan Younis, on Wednesday evening.

The army also bombarded the Miraj area, north of Rafah in Gaza’s southernmost part, killing three Palestinians and wounding many others.

Additionally, eight Palestinians were killed and many injured in another Israeli bombing of the Salam neighborhood in the city.

Sources at the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis reported that the bodies of 18 slain Palestinians, including children and women, were transferred to the medical facility after being killed by Israeli missiles on Wednesday.

The Israeli army also wired and detonated numerous homes and buildings in the southern area of Gaza City.

Medical sources confirmed that at least 68 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in bombing and shelling attacks across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Most of the casualties were women and children.

In related news, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini stated that Israeli forces carried out an airstrike targeting an agency building in Jabalia. Preliminary reports indicate that the UNRWA building in Jabalia was sheltering over 700 displaced individuals at the time of the attack.

Lazzarini emphasized that the displaced families were forced to remain in the shelter even after it was struck, as they had no alternative refuge.

He pointed out that the blatant disregard for the safety of UN staff, premises, and operations constitutes a violation of international law.

The Commissioner-General called for an independent investigation to uncover the circumstances surrounding the attack and the serious violations accompanying it, stressing that all red lines have been crossed repeatedly in Gaza.

Since the resumption of the genocide in Gaza on March 18, 2025, the Israeli army has killed 1,200 Palestinians and injured more than 2,597, mostly children, women, and elderly individuals.

The total number of Palestinians killed since October 7, 2023, has now exceeded 50,423, including 15,827 children and 9,826 women. At least 114,638 Palestinians have been wounded, most of them children and women. Thousands remain missing, largely buried under rubble in various areas of the devastated coastal enclave.

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