Tuesday, March 18, 2025 – The Gaza Strip
The ways in which Israel violated the ceasefire agreement until renewing its assault on the Gaza Strip, Local call website (+972)
General
‣ After 15 days of siege, denial of passage to aid trucks, physicians, medical equipment, electricity supply stoppage to desalination plants – Israel opens an aerial attack accompanied by massive artillery fire beginning at 3 a.m.
For 10 minutes 80 targets in various areas in the Gaza Strip were attacked from the air – among them Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, Gaza City, the refugee camps of Al Shati, Nuseirat, Al Bureij and Al Maghazi, Deir al-Balah, Abasan Al Kabira, Al Fukhari, Al-Qarara, Khan Yunis, Khirbet Al Adas and Rafah.
‣ In the first assault wave, 404 Palestinians were killed. Among them were
◦ 174 children;
◦ 89 women;
◦ 32 elderly persons;
◦ 109 men;
◦ 562 persons were wounded.
‣ Among the persons killed – and the targeted according to Israel – was the deputy internal secretary, homeland security service CEO, the chairman of the government following committee, a member of the political bureau of Jamas, the deputy secretary of the Ministry of Justice, the military spokesperson of Al Quds Brigade (the armed section of the Islamic Jihad).
‣ All hours of the day saw artillery fire, drone attacks and aerial bombings in various sites.
‣ Until the evening, 436 Palestinians were killed, and 678 persons were wounded;
‣ Update of persons killed and wounded by districts:
‣ Since October 7, 2023:
◦ 49,547 persons killed;
◦ 112,719 persons wounded.
‣ Israel has begun to reoccupy Netzarim Road in order to divide the Strip in two (Northern Strip separated from the Central and Southern Strip), as part of the 5 Finger Plan for additional partition of the Strip.
Sources
Addameer, Al Jazeera, Amar Assadi Telegram, BBC, Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Genocide in Gaza, Haaretz, HRANA - Human Rights Activists News Agency, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Jordan Valley Activists, Letters of American healthcare workers who worked in Gaza, Local Call, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Masafering (Outside the Herd), Matan Golan, Middle East Eye, Ministry of Public Health – Gaza, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon, OCHA Lebanon, OCHA OPT, Palestine Datasets, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestinian Health Ministry, Quds News, Reuters, Rosa News, South Hebron Mountain Activists, Ta'ayush, Tasnim News Agency, Tech for Palestine, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), The Washington Post, UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, West Bank Notifications, WHO, yNet, Zirat War
