Friday, March 21, 2025 – The Gaza Strip

‣ Casualty data in the past 24 hours (no reports of casualties since March 18, 2025 or October 7, 2023):

Northern Strip	Southern Strip
43 persons killed	65 persons killed
82 persons wounded

‣ Gaza Ministry of Health reports over 200 children killed since March 18, 2025.

Attacks against Israel

‣ 2 rockets fired at Ashkelon. Both intercepted.

Northern Strip

1. Beit Lahia:

‣ Aerial bombings during the night;

‣ Tanks invade western parts;

‣ Houses bombed.

2. Jabalia refugee camp – mosque bombed, one person killed and others wounded.

3. Gaza City:

‣ Aerial bombing in town. ABC News journalist, his wife and daughter killed;

‣ Aerial bombing of Tel El Hawa (south-east);

‣ 2 bombings of Al Tuffah (north-eastern part of town):

◦ 6 persons killed in the first bombing, 2 of them children;

◦ In the second bombing, 5 persons killed, 4 of them children, all of a single family.

Central Strip

1. Al Bureij refugee camp – artillery fire from north-east of camp.

2. Al Mughraqa – several bombings during the day.

3. Netzarim Road – Turkish Hospital bombed and wiped out (the only hospital treating cancer patients).

4. Deir al-Balah:

‣ Bombing of displaced persons tents near the Al Aqsa Hospital. Persons wounded including children;

‣ Bombings of city center.

5. Nuseirat refugee camp – bombing, wounded persons.

Southern Strip

1. Khan Yunis:

‣ Artillery fire east of the city;

‣ Bombing of Abasan Al Kabira (east), 2 women killed;

‣ Bombings of farmland.

2. Rafah:

‣ Tanks surround and shell, drones fire the Tel Al Sultan area;

‣ Artillery fire at city center;

‣ Machine-gun fire in southern part of the city;

‣ Shelling near the Emiri Hospital in western part of the city;

‣ Bombing of western part of the city;

‣ Aerial bombing of Al Nassar neighborhood in the northern part of the city.

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Sources: Addameer, Al Jazeera, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Haaretz, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), 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, Lebanon, Palestinian Health Ministry, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Quds News, South Hebron Mountain Activists (Media groups), UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, WHO.