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by IMEMC News
June 18, 2025

On Tuesday, the 92nd day since the resumption of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on March 18th (after just 54 days of ceasefire), the Israeli army continued its bombing and shelling across various areas of the devastated and besieged Gaza Strip, resulting in numerous fatalities and injuries.

The Israeli military fired with tanks and guns at Palestinians gathered at so-called ‘aid distribution sites’ set up by the US-based Christian Zionist company GHF. Over 60 people were killed and 200 injured when Israeli occupation soldiers targeted civilians waiting for aid in eastern Khan Younis, southern Gaza. 28 civilians were killed in an attack targeting people attempting to obtain food southwest of Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost area. And on Tuesday evening in Gaza City, six Palestinians were killed and more than 30 others injured Tuesday evening in an Israeli airstrike targeting people waiting for food aid.

Yousef D. Hammash writes, “I swear to God, out of frustration I feel like writing and sharing this so people can know the truth about what’s really happening at the American death zones. Yesterday, GHF posted on their page that aid distribution would begin at 10 a.m.

"Forget about the injuries and the martyrs who were killed even before that time after 10 a.m., along the aid route, soldiers had been planted.

“A tank pretended to withdraw, and when people moved forward after the announced time they started picking them off like ducks.

"Some were martyred, others wounded. And if you were ‘lucky’ enough to reach the aid distribution point, you’d find the Americans and a handful of your own people welcoming you with pepper spray so strong you couldn’t even collect your aid, you’d collapse.

"The only ones benefiting from this tragic scene are the traders… just the traders.”

[See]Scenes from the so-called ‘aid sites’.

Medical sources announced on Tuesday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 55,493, most of them children and women, since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023 .

The sources added that the death toll has risen to 129,320 since the start of the aggression, while a number of victims remain under the rubble, unable to be reached by ambulances and civil defense teams .

She pointed out that the number of martyrs who arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours reached 61 martyrs (including 6 martyrs who were recovered), and 397 injuries, while the death toll and injuries since March 18, after the occupation violated the ceasefire agreement, reached 5,194 martyrs, and 17,279 injuries .

The sources pointed out that the total number of aid victims who arrived at hospitals from areas designated for aid distribution reached 397, with more than 3,000 injured

Southern Gaza

In Khan Younis, medical sources at Nasser Hospital reported that the army fired a shell at a tent housing displaced Palestinians in the Al-Mawasi area, killing six people, including a mother and her three children, and injuring many others.

Medical sources confirmed that the victims included Riham Al-Qaisi and her children, Fuad, Mira, and Kinan, along with Mohammad Fuad Hamdan and Noman Khalil Ali Al-Jazzar.

Another strike also targeting tents of displaced Palestinians in the same area killed four Palestinians and wounding many others.

Meanwhile, 28 civilians were killed in an attack targeting people attempting to obtain food southwest of Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost area.

Rescue teams also recovered six bodies from different locations in Khan Younis.

In Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, two Palestinian women, Jenna Abu Al-Naja and Rowayda Oweida, succumbed to their injuries while receiving critical care.

Furthermore, two Palestinians were killed, and many injured, when an Israeli drone targeted a tent, housing displaced Palestinians in Mawasi Khan Younis.

Furthermore, the Israeli military has continued detonating and demolishing homes in several areas of Khan Younis.

Al-Jazeera quoted sources at Nasser Hospital confirm that over 60 people were killed and 200 injured when Israeli occupation soldiers targeted civilians waiting for aid in eastern Khan Younis, southern Gaza, earlier this morning.

Central Gaza

In Nuseirat refugee camp, a Palestinian, Omar Abu Shaqyan, was killed when Israeli warplanes struck his family home.

Additionally, one person was killed and 15 others injured by Israeli gunfire while waiting for aid north of Wadi Gaza.

In Deir Al-Balah, two Palestinians were killed and four others injured when an Israeli strike hit a tent sheltering displaced civilians.

Six Palestinians were killed and more than 30 others injured Tuesday evening in an Israeli airstrike targeting people waiting for food aid northwest of Gaza City.

Earlier today, the Israeli occupation forces committed two massacres against people waiting for food aid in the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of more than 60 citizens and the injury of approximately 200 others.

The Gaza Strip has been suffering a catastrophic humanitarian crisis since the occupation closed all crossings on March 2, preventing the entry of food, medicine, aid, and fuel, while the occupation forces escalate their genocide against our people in the Strip.

It’s worth noting that the occupation forces have targeted aid distribution points in Rafah and the central Gaza Strip for weeks, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries. This move, according to UN confirmations, is intended to forcibly displace the population, as part of what appears to be a strategy of ethnic cleansing.

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The Israeli military continued demolishing residential buildings in northeastern Gaza City.

Early Tuesday morning, several people were wounded in an airstrike targeting the Sahbani family home in Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

Furthermore, a Palestinian woman was killed when an Israeli strike hit Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

Earlier, five Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians awaiting humanitarian aid northwest of Gaza City.

Medical sources confirmed that Gaza hospitals received 86 bodies, including two recovered from rubble, along with 182 injuries in the past 24 hours.

In related news, Israeli sources reported that Hamas fighters of the Al-Qassam Brigades detonated an explosive device on an armored personnel carrier, killing one soldier and injuring others.

Additionally, the Israeli army announced the death of a soldier from the Golani Brigade and injuries to four others, including an officer who was critically wounded in battles south of Gaza.

Israeli army radio, quoting a military source, stated that the explosion of the explosive device on the armored personnel carrier led to the death of one soldier and injuries to nine others.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said its fighters ambushed Israeli soldiers in a home they occupied in the western area of northern Khan Younis, firing shells at them.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) stated that at least 338 Palestinians have been killed and over 2,831 injured while trying to access aid in Gaza, since late May.

Since Israel violated the ceasefire deal in Gaza on March 18, 2025, the Israeli army has killed more than 5,139 Palestinians, including at least 944 children, 132 women, and 148 elderly, and injured at least 16,882.

Since the beginning of 2025, the Israeli army has killed more than 6,347 Palestinians, including 1,265 children, 322 women, 235 elderly, and 37 journalists.

Israel has now killed at least 55,432 Palestinians, including more than 16,507 children, 9,803 women, 254 journalists, 1,411 medical staff, 203 UNRWA staff, and 113 Civil Defense medics and rescue workers, and injured at least 128,923, mostly children, women, and elderly (at least 70%). In addition, at least 9,000 Palestinians remain missing, largely under rubble across the destroyed Gaza Strip.

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