An Israeli drone killed a 17-year-old girl, injuring six others on Monday morning when it fired five missiles at a car on a busy street in central Gaza City, a medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital told Al Manassa.
According to an eyewitness, the drone first struck the vehicle with two missiles. After residents gathered near the wreckage, the drone fired three more missiles, causing further injuries from flying shrapnel.
The strike came without any prior warning in a densely populated commercial district, the eyewitness told Al Manassa. The area contains a market, shops, educational centers, and public internet hotspots used by high school students sitting online exams.
The strike killed 17-year-old Raghad Ashour, who died of shrapnel wounds before reaching Al-Shifa Hospital. A family member told Al Manassa that Raghad had been on her way to an internet hotspot to take her exam. According to the source, she had been displaced along with her mother and two brothers to a relative’s home in central Gaza City after her father was killed in a previous Israeli military operation in the northern Strip.
The source added that Raghad had relied on public internet access points to sit her high school exams, which began two days earlier, because of poor internet service where the family is currently staying. Despite the ongoing war and displacement, she had been determined to continue her studies.
Separately, in Khan Younis, five Palestinians had been injured on Sunday evening when an Israeli reconnaissance drone targeted tents sheltering displaced people in the Al-Maslakh area south of the city, a source at the Nasser Medical Complex told Al Manassa.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said the injured included a 75-year-old man in critical condition, now receiving treatment in the intensive care unit.
An eyewitness told Al Manassa that a missile struck the tents without warning, wounding several displaced people with shrapnel. “The entire area consists of tents for displaced families who lost their homes and were forced to flee,” the eyewitness said. “The army is still pursuing us with airstrikes and death.”
Strikes resumed in Khan Younis on Monday, when a reconnaissance drone fired two missiles without prior warning at a car driving near the British Hospital southwest of the city, a journalistic source told Al Manassa.
The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the strike killed Mysara Nassar, a paramedic with the Ministry of Health, and injured several others, who were transferred to nearby hospitals for treatment.
Nassar had worked as a paramedic at Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah before moving to a field hospital west of Khan Younis after the occupation army took control of Rafah and continued military operations there.
In recent weeks, the Israeli army has intensified its assault on Gaza, carrying out targeted assassinations and strikes on displaced populations. These actions represent ongoing violations of the ceasefire agreement declared last October, stalling the transition to its second phase, which had been scheduled to begin two weeks later and include reconstruction efforts.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, more than 13 Palestinians have been killed and over 50 others injured since last Friday. This brings the total number of casualties since the ceasefire was announcement to 1,021 dead and 3,260 injured.
