Friday, August 22, 2025 – The Gaza Strip
- Adi Ronen Argov
- Aug 21
- 3 min read
‣ In the past 24 hours:
◦ 2 cases of death by starvation.
◦ 71 persons killed (24 of them aid seekers), 251 wounded (133 of them aid seekers);
‣ Since March 18, 2025 – 10,712 persons killed, 45,325 wounded;
‣ Since May 27, 2025 – 2,060 persons killed, 15,197 wounded, all aid seekers:
◦ So far 273 persons dead by starvation, 112 of them children.
‣ Since October 7, 2023 – 62,263 persons killed, 157,365 wounded.
General
1. Massive bombings in the Northern Strip, in Jabalia refugee camp and town, massive bombings and house demolitions in Gaza City, in the neighborhoods of Al Sabra, Al Tuffah, Shuja'iya and Al Zeitoun.
2. According to IPC (Hunger Crisis Scale) – 514,000 of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip face a real hunger crisis, expecting to rise to 641,000 persons until the end of September.
Northern Strip
1. Jabalia refugee camp and town:
‣ Aerial bombing in the camp;
◦ Houses exploded and destroyed and destroyed by booby-trapped robot;
◦ Bombing, one person killed.
◦ Artillery fire;
◦ Bombing, 3 persons killed.
2. Shots fired at aid seekers in Al Sudaniyeh, 2 persons killed.
Gaza City
1. West:
‣ Helicopter attack of Al Jala’a street, 5 persons killed – parents and their 3 children;
‣ Helicopter fire in Al Shati refugee camp – 4 persons killed;
◦ Bombing, 2 persons killed;
◦ School bombed, 12 persons killed;
◦ Bombing, one person killed.
2. East:
‣ Al Tuffah:
◦ Houses exploded and destroyed;
◦ Machine-gun fire, one person killed, persons wounded.
◦ Massive artillery fire.
‣ Drone fire in Shuja'iya.
3. South:
‣ Al Zeitoun:
◦ Artillery fire;
◦ Houses exploded and destroyed.
‣ Al Sabra:
◦ House bombed, a mother and her daughter killed;
◦ Artillery fire;
◦ House bombed.
Central Strip
1. Al Bureij refugee camp – artillery fire in the northern part of camp.
2. Deir al-Balah – bombing in the eastern part of town.
3. Al-Musaddar – artillery fire.
4. Nuseirat refugee camp:
‣ House bombed, causing a fire, a child killed;
‣ Shots fired at aid seekers in Wadi Gaza, 9 persons killed, 38 wounded;
‣ More shots fired at aid seekers in Wadi Gaza, one person killed.
Khan Yunis district
1. West:
‣ Night bombing near Abd Al Rahman Mosque in the western camp, wounded persons;
‣ Drone drops a bomb on desalination plant in the north-west, wounded persons;
‣ Bombing in the north-west, 2 persons killed;
‣ Bombing, 5 persons killed including 3 children;
‣ Bombing of Al Mawasi, a woman killed, wounded persons.
2. North:
‣ Hamad:
◦ Artillery fire;
◦ Aerial bombing.
Rafah district
1. Shots fired at aid seekers from the west.
Sources: Addameer, Al Jazeera, Amar Assadi Telegram, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Haaretz, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), HRANA-Human Rights Activists News Agency, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Jordan Valley Activists (Media groups), Letters of American healthcare workers who worked in Gaza, Local Call, OCHA OPT, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Masafering (Outside the Herd), Middle East Eye, Ministry of Public Health – Gaza, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon, Palestinian Health Ministry, Palestine Datasets, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Quds News, South Hebron Mountain Activists (Media groups), Ta’ayush, Tasnim News Agency, Tech for Palestine, UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, The Washington Post, WHO, yNet, Zirat War.
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