Two Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed on Monday after Israeli helicopters carried out an airstrike west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported citing medical sources.
According to the medical sources, the two victims were transferred to the Kuwaiti Specialized Field Hospital, while the attack also injured 17 others and caused several displacement tents to catch fire.
In the northwest of the Gaza Strip, Nidal Shalha succumbed to wounds he sustained days earlier in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a group of civilians near the 17th Roundabout in the Tuam area.
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced today that the death toll from the Israeli offensive on the Strip has risen to 72,797, with 172,821 injured, since the start of the offensive on October 7, 2023.
The sources reported that Gaza Strip hospitals received six fatalities and eight injuries over the past 24 hours, including one person who succumbed to previous injuries and five newly killed victims.
