The Israeli navy has been bombing throughout Gaza for the reason that early hours of the morning, killing over 400 Palestinians and wounding greater than 500 others.
With many youngsters and ladies among the many useless, the casualty figures are solely anticipated to rise. Whole households have as soon as once more been wiped out, and native authorities are interesting to the general public for blood donations.
Israel’s bombing marketing campaign got here with out warning, countless Palestinians waking as much as witness the extension of what the United Nations has referred to as “hell on earth”.
Dozens of movies circulating on Tuesday confirmed civilians looking for family members in morgues and beneath the rubble of destroyed properties.
Listed below are a number of the victims of Israel’s newest assaults:
Household slaughtered in Gaza Metropolis
Ramy Abdu, chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, misplaced his sister and her total household after their house was bombed in Gaza Metropolis within the northern a part of the enclave at round 4:30am (2:30 GMT)
He mentioned Nesreen and her son and daughters, Ubaida, Omar and Lian, have been all killed, together with Ubaida’s spouse, Malak, and their young children, Siwar and Mohammed.
The household had survived many previous Israeli air strikes over a number of years and had their house and full neighbourhood destroyed by Israeli bombs earlier within the struggle.
Israel killed my sister and her youngsters tonight, alongside along with her total household.
Israel might kill us at will, burn us alive, and tear us aside, however it can by no means achieve uprooting us from our land.
Justice and accountability await—regardless of how lengthy it takes.
Omer & Layan pic.twitter.com/aINB6AM2td— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) March 18, 2025
“Israel might kill us at will, burn us alive, and tear us aside, however it can by no means achieve uprooting us from our land,” Abdu wrote on his X account, calling for accountability.
Additionally in Gaza Metropolis, footage broadcast by Palestinians on Instagram, verified by Al Jazeera, confirmed scenes of injured individuals on the bottom because of an Israeli assault that hit a gaggle of individuals close to al-Rantisi Youngsters’s Hospital.
A physician and her entire household killed
Round half an hour after the killing of Abdu’s household within the north, a Gaza doctor and her household have been worn out within the south.
Dr Majda Abu Aker, who was an obstetrics-gynaecology specialist at an UNRWA clinic in Rafah, and greater than a dozen others have been massacred by an Israeli air strike on her home in al-Jenaina neighbourhood in Rafah.
A minimum of 10 of the killed Palestinians have been members of the identical household, together with a number of girls and their youngsters. The youngest was a three-day-old toddler lady.
الشـ.. ـهيدة الدكتورة ماجدة أبو عكر https://t.co/A2xkA4w7dU pic.twitter.com/f5Pte7TjAq
— ق.ض (@Qadeyah1) March 18, 2025
Translation: The martyr, Dr Majda Abu Aker. The next martyrs have been recognized after the Aker household bloodbath in Rafah: Khaled Abu Riash (Abu Mohamed), Dr Majda Abu Aker, Kholoud Khaled Abu Riash and her youngsters, Osama Abu Marzouq, Seham Abu Marzouq, Nour Osama Abu Marzouq and her three-day-old daughter, Dina Osama Abu Marzouq, Mohamed Osama Abu Marzouq.
Extra civilians killed in assaults on south Gaza
One other 15 individuals, most of them members of the Barhoum household, have been named as being killed in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.
The world had been designated a so-called “humanitarian zone” by the Israeli navy in the course of the struggle, however that didn’t cease Israeli warplanes from repeatedly attacking al-Mawasi to lethal impact.
Close by, within the metropolis of Abasan situated east of Khan Younis, a household of six was killed as they have been fleeing the Israeli bombs.
Their automobile was immediately hit and destroyed by an air strike, killing all six individuals, Al Jazeera correspondents on the bottom reported.
Additionally in Khan Younis within the south, one other household was left shocked and bereaved after their two younger youngsters have been killed by Israeli bombs.
Heba al-Hindi, the youngsters’s aunt, introduced the information on Fb.
“Expensive youngsters, might God have mercy on you and provides persistence to your mom and father,” she wrote, mourning Bisan and her brother Ayman.
Translation: Ayman and Bisan are martyrs, with God. Expensive God grant us the energy, God grant you energy my sister, Soad, might he offer you energy and persistence.
‘My youngsters died hungry’
A video from Khan Younis, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking company, confirmed a Palestinian lady collapsing in tears as she bids farewell to her youngsters and husband.
“My youngsters died hungry, I swear to God they didn’t discover meals for suhoor, my daughter died fasting with out suhoor,” the lady mentioned, referring to the meal eaten earlier than daybreak in the course of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
To Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she mentioned, “I’m a mom with a burning coronary heart, might God burn your coronary heart over your youngsters”.
Household finds physique after hours of looking out
In Jabalia within the north, households have been pressured to seek for hours to seek out the stays of a cherished one who was brutally killed by the devastating impression of an Israeli bomb.
Grotesque footage verified by Al Jazeera confirmed destroyed buildings a big crater left by the bomb, and elements of a physique being discovered flung onto a tree.
Jabalia and its refugee camp have been subjected to a number of the most damaging Israeli assaults for the reason that begin of the struggle on Gaza on October 7, 2023.
Within the weeks earlier than the January 19 implementation of the ceasefire with Hamas that Israel has now shattered once more, a lot of Jabalia was destroyed.
The Israeli navy has killed at the least 48,577 Palestinians and wounded 112,041 others for the reason that begin of the struggle. 1000’s extra are lacking or beneath the rubble and presumed useless, pushing the entire to greater than 61,000 useless.
