Tuesday, March 18, 2025 – The Gaza Strip
- Adi Ronen Argov
- Mar 18
- 2 min read
The ways in which Israel violated the ceasefire agreement until renewing its assault on the Gaza Strip, Local call website (+972)
‣ 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;
Killed | Wounded |
94 women | 251 men |
183 children | 227 children |
34 elderly persons | 169 women |
125 men | 34 elderly persons |
‣ Update of persons killed and wounded by districts:
Northern Strip | Gaza City | Central Strip | Khan Yunis | Rafah |
34 killed | 156 killed | 54 killed | 77 killed | 106 killed |
140 wounded | 229 wounded | 46 wounded | 119 wounded | 149 wounded |
‣ 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, 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.
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