The most defenseless victims of the Israeli attacks are the 64 children who lost their lives in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and other occupied areas of Palestine.The tensions, which started with the forced eviction of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, mounted with Israeli raids on Palestinian worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque early this month.Israel launched airstrikes on Gaza on May 10 in a bid to suppress Palestinian resistance.The Hamas Movement in Gaza also responded to Israel's attacks with missiles.According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, at least 213 civilians have been killed and 1,400 others injured in Israeli attacks.- Over 3,000 child victimsAccording to the Palestinian Information Ministry, more than 3,000 children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the last 20 years.Human rights organizations state that residential buildings that housed families with children were deliberately targeted during Israeli airstrikes, and that Israeli soldiers opened fire indiscriminately in raids on occupied areas such as the West Bank for "security reasons".- 15 children killed in Khan YounisBrothers Yazen al-Masri, 2, Rehaf al-Masri, 10, Ibrahim Masri, 11, and Merwan Masri, 7, lost their lives in Khan Younis, which has borne the brunt of incessant Israeli attacks.Four other siblings, Muhammed al-Tanani, 3, Adham al-Tanani, 4, Amir al-Tanani, 5, and Ismail al-Tanani, 6, lost their lives in the attacks.Hussein Hamad, 11, Ibrahim Hasanein, 16, Muhammad Abu Dayya, 5, Ammar al-Omur, 11, Hammade al-Omur, 13, Bashar Sammur, 17, and Khalid al-Qanoo, 17, were also killed in the attacks.11-year-old Hussein Hamad and 16-year-old Ibrahim Hasanein were also among those killed.Muhammad Abu Dayya, 5, Ammar al-Omur, 11, Hammada al-Omur, 13, Bashar Sammur, 17, and Khalid al-Qanoo, 17, were also massacred.- Youngest victim 5 months oldMuhammed Zein el-Attar, who was only 5 months old, was killed in Israeli strikes on Beit Lahia, along with his siblings Islam, 5, and Amira, 6.Other Palestinian children who were massacred in Israeli raids are: Zaid al-Telbani, 5, Hamza Ali, 12, Yahya Khalifa, 14, Hala Rifi, 14, Baraa al-Gharabli, 16, Fawzia Naser Muhammed Abu Fares, 17, and Lina Sherir, 16.Tawfiq Abu el-Auf, 16, Tala Abu el-Auf, 12, and Revan Abu Abu el-Auf, 11, also died in an airstrike.Four brothers, Lena, Rana, Yahya and Zein, from the Eshkuntana family, lost their lives in one such attack.Three siblings from the Kolak family named Hala, Yara, and Rula were killed in the attacks of Israel.Mahmoud Tulba, 13, and Refif Abu Dayer, 11, were killed in a strike on Gaza.- Israel kills 7 children in Al-Shati refugee campIsraeli jets last weekend bombarded the Al-Shati refugee camp, which is home to more 85,000 Palestinians.In the attack, four children from a family were killed. They were identified as Yamen Alaa Muhammed Abu Hatab, 6, Maryam Alaa Muhammed Abu Hatab, 8, Bilal Alaa Muhammed Ebu Hatab, 9, and Yusuf Alaa Muhammed Abu Hatab, 11.Tamara al-Rifai, spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said the attack on the refugee camp came as a shock.In Gaza's north, Bouthaina Mahmud Isa Obeid, 6, Muhammed Suleiman, 16, Abid Zakariyyah Alloush, 17, and Mustafa Obeid, 17, were killed.Ibrahim al-Rantisi, 2, and Hur al-Zamili were also killed in a strike.Thirteen-year-old Abdullah Ashraf Abdullah Juda was the latest victim of Israeli attacks.In the Bureij refugee camp, Ahmed Mahmud al-Hawajiri, 14, and Lina Muhammed Mahmud Isa, 14, were killed by Israeli forces.In the Deir al Balah region of Gaza, Yusuf al-Baz, 13, also died.According to latest information shared by Palestinian authorities, seven more children were killed in Gaza.In the occupied West Bank, Rashid Abu Erra, 16, Said Owda, 16, and Zeid Fadil Muhammed al-Qaisiya, 17, were killed in Israel’s attacks.

Ramallah, May 19, 2021—With four more Palestinian children's deaths due to Israeli airstrikes now confirmed, the total Palestinian child death toll across the Gaza Strip has mounted to 64 since hostilities began last week.  Defense for Children International - Palestine has confirmed that Israeli aerial attacks killed three more children in central Gaza between May 15 and May 18, in addition to those previously reported. On May 18, a toddler succumbed to injuries from an earlier airstrike that Israeli forces carried out on May 11 in Gaza City. A 13-year-old boy from Deir Al-Balah and a 10-year-old girl from Gaza City were killed in two separate attacks. DCIP also confirmed the death of a fourth child who was unaccounted for and presumed dead in an Israeli airstrike that took place over the weekend in Al-Shati refugee camp, near Gaza City.  Mina Iyad Fathi Sharir, 2 years old, died in Shifa hospital yesterday, on May 18. She had been hospitalized in critical condition with third-degree burns following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on May 11. An Israeli warplane fired two missiles at a two-story home in Gaza City’s Al-Manara neighborhood around 4:30 p.m, completely destroying the residential building. The same attack killed Mina’s sister, 15-year-old Lina Iyad Fathi Sharir, and both of the children's parents. The evening before, on May 17, an Israeli airstrike killed 10-year-old Rafeef Mershed Kamel Abu Dayer in Gaza City. Around 6:45 p.m. Israeli warplanes struck the upper three floors of the seven-story Ghazi Shawa building on Al-Wehda Street in Gaza City, according to documentation collected by DCIP. Members of the Abu Dayer family were eating in a garden nearby at the time of the attacks. Shrapnel and rubble from the air raid struck the girl's leg. Medical reports showed that Rafeef had internal bleeding, likely due to the force of the explosion. Along with Rafeef, the attack killed the girl's uncle, Zeyad Abu Dayer. Ten other Palestinians, including seven members of Rafeef’s family sustained injuries—most of them minor—and were treated in Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital. Al-Wehda Street was also the scene of earlier devastation, as DCIP reported that 18 children were killed in separate airstrikes which took place there in the early morning hours of May 16. Also on May 17, an Israeli drone-fired missile strike killed Yousef Rafeeq Ismail al-Baz, 13, on the spot, around noon, and critically injured the boy’s 16-year-old brother, Ramadan. The al-Baz family home was directly struck by the missile, according to reports collected by DCIP. The two brothers were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital, where Yousef was pronounced dead. Ramadan is currently being treated for shrapnel injuries. A fourth child, 10-year-old Yahya Mohammad Sobhi al-Hadidi, was confirmed dead following an airstrike in the densely populated Al-Shati refugee camp early on May 15 that killed seven other children. The Israeli missile that struck Alaa Abu Hatab’s three-story home in Al-Shati refugee camp around 1:30 a.m. on May 15 killed seven other children, including three of Yahya’s brothers, alongside their mothers, as previously reported. Yahya had been presumed dead, but DCIP was unable to confirm his death at the time. Yahya’s five-month-old infant brother, Omar Mohammad Sobhi al-Hadidi, was the sole survivor of the attack, apparently shielded by his mother’s body, according to Haaretz.  DCIP has documented 64 Palestinian children killed in the Gaza Strip since hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups escalated on May 10. At least one Palestinian child remains unaccounted for, and while presumed dead, DCIP has not yet confirmed their death. Since May 10, at least 219 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed and at least 1,570 Palestinians injured, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Over 72,000 people have been displaced from their homes including 47,000 internally displaced persons who have sought protection in 58 UNRWA schools across the Gaza Strip. Some 230 buildings have been destroyed, including 991 housing units, while an additional 679 housing units have been rendered uninhabitable, OCHA reported. With no ceasefire yet in place, OCHA has raised multiple concerns about hospital access. Since the start of the hostilities, six hospitals and eleven primary healthcare centers sustained partial damages and one Ministry of Health primary healthcare center sustained severe damage. Additionally, one NGO hospital is not functioning due to fuel shortages, OCHA reported. Israeli forces have also damaged essential infrastructure, including roads leading to two main hospitals. This has resulted in a marked decline in the public’s access to medical care and other basic services, according to OCHA.  The latest escalation in hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups follows weeks of mounting tension and protracted legal battles as Israeli settlers, with Israeli government support, seek to expel hundreds of Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem. Palestinian-led protests against these planned expulsions have been met with state-sanctioned violence as Israeli police and paramilitary border police use excessive force against Palestinian protesters.  International humanitarian law prohibits indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks and requires all parties to an armed conflict to distinguish between military targets, civilians, and civilian objects. While Israel relies on the principle of self-defense to justify military offensives on Gaza, Israeli forces are bound to customary international law rules of proportionality and necessity. As the occupying power in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the Gaza Strip, Israel is required to protect the Palestinian civilian population from violence.

Israeli occupation warplanes target a house in Deir Al-Balah center of the #Gaza Strip. #GazaUnderAttack

[1](Field Period: 17-19 May 2021) Date: 21 May 2021 Between Monday 17 May 2021 and the afternoon of Wednesday 19 May 2021, while Palestinians from historic Palestine organized and joined a popular initiated general strike against Israeli oppression and in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) intensified attacks on civilian properties, including residential buildings, commercial properties as well as sites of the Palestinian resistance. The violence and severity of the Israeli attacks have even rendered it difficult for the medical units to identify the deceased. As of 18 May, one deceased civilian could not be identified, his body having been reduced to pieces due to several burns that conceal the features of his face. Al-Rimal, in Gaza City, already devastated by a series of previous bombings that had caused severe damage to the main road leading to Al-Shifaa hospital, was the target of an increased number of military strikes, gravely impairing the operation of health centers and services in the neighbourhood. As of 19 May 2021, at 9:30 am, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported 219 Palestinian casualties, including 63 children, and 1,530 wounded. Intensified Assault on Al-Rimal Neighbourhood, Severely Damaging Essential Health Structures At noon, on Monday 17 May 2021, medical teams and Civil Defense rescue workers retrieved the body of Shaima Alaa Sohi Al-Awf, 21, buried under the rubble of her house, following another air strike of Al-Wehda Street, Al-Rimal neighbourhood, Gaza City, on Sunday 16 May 2021. The number of fatalities for the sole Al-Rimal neighbourhood now stands at 44, including 18 children and 13 women, as rescue teams continue to search for missing people. At around 12:40 pm on Monday, 17 May 2021 an unmanned aerial drone, launched one missile at the home of the Al-Baz family, who were inside their home. The two-storey house is adjacent to a car workshop and is located along Salah El-Din Road near the entrance to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital Street in Deir Al-Balah, in the Central Governorate. Youssef Rafiq Ismail Al-Baz, 13, was killed and his brother Ramadan, 16, was seriously injured, and transferred in critical condition to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza requiring intensive care. The bombing also resulted in damage to the house and nearby cars. Later during the day, at approximately 6:45 pm, the IOF targeted, without prior warning, the last three floors of the six-storey Ghazi Shawa building, located opposite to the Rimal Martyrs Center, or Al-Rimal Clinic, and the administrative building of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, on Al-Wehda Street. The bombardment caused substantial damage to Al-Rimal Clinic and to the Ministry of Health, shattering many windows, doors, offices and medical rooms. The building contained a number of media offices, health centers and commercial companies, including the headquarters of the Islamic National Bank, the Dakhani Laboratory, the Reef Finance Corporation, the National Finance Company, and the Basma Clinic for Medicine and Dental Implants. The bombing lightly injured 10 civilians and killed two members of the Abu Dyer family: Rafif Murshed Kamel Abu Dyer, 10, suffering massive hemorrhaging caused by the force of the explosion. Ziad Kamel Abdullah Abu Dayer, 54, fatally injured by a shrapnel in his head. Following the incident, the Ministry of Health, represented by Dr. Yusef Abu Al-Rish, Secretary, issued a statement to firmly condemn the targeting, endangering and wounding of health works and civilians and the deliberate targeting of health personnel and institutions. It was recorded that more than 103 members of medical teams working in the central laboratory, telemedicine, and various medical services were injured. The central laboratory and only coronavirus test center in the Gaza Strip, was forced to halt, and the provision of medical consultations related to the coronavirus pandemic was interrupted and severely impacted by the incapacitation of doctors and health workers. In addition, Al-Haq monitored the direct targeting of: a group of civilians standing in the middle of Beit Lahia Street, North Gaza, near Hamouda private clinic, killing Ahmed Ziyad Hussein Sabah, 28, and Muhammad Nazeer Muhammad Abu Aoun, 18, and injuring a number of other civilians, on 17 May, at 5:35 pm. Mahmoud Ramadan Omar Shteiwi, on 10th Street, causing his immediate death, on 18 May, at 5:00 pm. a group of civilians, in Al-Salam neighbourhood, east of the Crimean junction, Jabalia, North Gaza, on 19 May at around 11:00 am, killing Ammar Abdullah Fawzi Al Nader, 31. The Israeli warplanes carried out, at approximately 10:05 pm on 18 May 2021, a series of very violent raids, bombing some 12 rockets over the course of 15 minutes, targeting agricultural lands and crossroads, specifically the road leading to the Khirbet al-Adas area, north of Rafah. The bombing resulted in the death of Sa`dia Yousef Hussein Abu Gharara, 57, from the Rafah refugee camp, as a result of a cardiac arrest. Al-Haq also reported the death of a journalist, on 19 May 2021, at 4:30 am, the fourth and fifth floors of Muhammad Abdel Qader Muhammad Abu Hussein’s building, 63, located on Al-Galaa Street near Sheikh Radwan Junction, north of Gaza City, causing the death of Yousef Muhammad Abdel Qader Abu Hussein, 32, a journalist who works as a broadcaster for the local Voice of Al-Aqsa radio station, who is a husband and the father of three children. The bombing also completely destroyed the two targeted apartments, while a third missile fell below the house, and destroyed three civilian cars. As the casualties escalated due to ongoing bombardments, civilians succumbed to their wounds after some days spent at the hospital. On 19 May, Al-Shifaa Hospital, Gaza City, announced the death of Firas Alaa Mohammed Al-Bahri, 20, from his injuries contracted with shrapnel on 13 May at around 1:45 pm, when an Israeli warplane targeted a group of civilians standing near Tower No. 19, Nada Towers, Ezbet Beit Hanoun, North Gaza. Continued Targeting of Civilian Commercial Units Between Monday 17 May 2021 evening and Wednesday 19 May 2021, Al-Haq reported the complete destruction of four commercial and community buildings, home to a number of media outlets, administrative and educational institutions: On 17 May 2021, at approximately 5:10 pm, the six-floor Mashareq building of the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, near Ansar South Junction, west of Gaza City, housing the Mashareq Media Company, the headquarters of the General Administration of Women's Work, the headquarters of the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, the headquarters of the Orphans Care Fund, the Al-Nahda Library and Talal Abu-Ghazaleh's audit office. The initial bombardment severely damaged the architecture. The building was the target of a second bombing at approximately 1:35 at dawn on 18 May 2021 that resulted in its complete destruction. On 18 May 2021, at around 6:10 am, the fifth-floor Kahil building, on Jamal Abdel Nasser Street, located near the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) and the Islamic University, center of Gaza City, hosting the headquarters of educational institutions, the Samir Mansour Library, the Vision Press, the Dar Al-Manara Press and the Iqra Library. The building was completely destroyed. On 18 May 2021, at around 7:30 pm, Rafah Central Reform and Rehabilitation Center, west of Rafah, completely destroying the building, and wounding two civilians. On 19 May 2021, at around 2:10 am, a two-storey building hosting the headquarters of the Development and Charitable Society Forum, located in Abasan, east of Khan Yunis was targeted and destroyed. The association was active in providing services and public charitable and development projects in the eastern region of Khan Yunis Governorate. Continued Targeting of Civilian Residential Units In addition, during the period 17 May 2021 - 19 May 2021, Al-Haq documented the targeting of 14 residential properties throughout the Gaza Strip, causing their partial or complete destruction, only four of the owners having reported prior warning by the IOF, including civilian properties in various locations throughout the Gaza Strip: Jabalia, North Gaza: Omar Suleiman’s three-storey building (17 May, 10:45 am), Raafat Muhammad Salman Salman’s two-storey building – causing damage to neighbouring houses (17/05, 11:05 am); Yusef Al-Ladawi’s building (17 May, 12:30 pm); Asaad Deed Ahmed Tabail’s building (18 May, 4:30 pm); Three civilian houses were targeted in Jabalia refugee camp, leading to their complete destruction: Ayman Siyam (17 May, 5:30 pm); Abd Al-Rahman Abu Al-Jabeen (17 May, 5:50 pm); Ramadan Ali Al-Abed Saleh (18 May, 5:35 pm); Abu Jalhoum family’s building (17/05, 12:30 pm), Abu Ajina family’s building (17 May, 6:35 pm); Ismail Hekmat Suleiman Junaid’s apartment in the 14-storey Al-Andalus Tower (18 May, 9:50 am); Ahmed Abdel Fattah Bakr Al-Kafarneh’s three-storey house (18 May, 10:50 am); Raed Yaqoub al-Kafarneh’s two-storey (18 May, 11:55 am); Ibrahim Muhammad Abdel Raziq Al-Kafarneh (18 May, 6:00 pm) Ramez Kamal Ramadan Al-Masry (18/05, 3:50 pm); Anwar Nimr Musa (18 May, 10:00 pm). Gaza City Zaher Ramadan Musa Abu Al-Amreen’s house inhabited by three families including nine children, the bombing caused severe damage to his neighbour’s house, he was notified prior to the bombing (18 May, 12:20 pm); Al-Rantisi family’s five-storey house, inhabited by four families including nine children (18 May, 12:25 pm); Jalal Subhi Ismail Al-Thalathini’s two-storey house, inhabited by four families, the owner was asked to evacuate the house (19 May, 12:30 pm); Shihab Al-Din Mahmoud Ibrahim Al-Mashal’s two-storey house, inhabited by nine families, he was notified by the IOF prior to the bombing (18 May, 1:00 pm); Mustafa Khalaf Mustafa Dalloul’s two-storey house, containing two apartments and inhabited by 11 persons, including four children, the bombing completely destroyed the entire house and caused damage to two neighbouring houses, his son Khalaf was notified to evacuate the house (17 May, 3:30 pm); Ahmed Hassan Al-Barawi Al-Falouji’s six-storey building, inhabited by seven families, 70 persons, located near the Riad Al-Salheen Mosque in the Al-Sha’af neighbourhood (18 May, 7:00 pm); Subhi Mustafa Al-Dahdouh’s two-storey house, inhabited by three families (17 May, 9:10 pm). Maghazi and Al-Bureijj Camps, Deir Al-Balah Sabri Abdul Hakim Al-Hasanat’s two-storey house was targeted, causing severe damage to a number of adjacent houses, shops and civilian properties, Deir Al-Balah (19 May, 7:00 am); Kamal Abu Sel’s house (18 May, 11:10 am); Al-Masry family’s house, resulting in the partial damage of the house and wounding two civilians, Deir Al-Balah (19 May, 12:00 pm); Ayman Muhammad Saydam’s two-storey house, targeted by one drone and one warplane, was not inhabited (17 May, 3:30 pm); Khan Yunis City, Khan Yunis Amjad Abu Al-Naja’s house, inhabited by his family of 7 members (17 May, 1:30 pm) Mahdi Jaber Kawareh’s inhabited by a family of nine members including seven children (17 May, 2:30 pm) Mohammed Jamal Al-Agha’s three-storey house (18 May, 3:15 pm); Asfour’s family farm, in Abadan Al-Jadida, east of Khan Yunis (17 May, 5:00 pm); Dardisi family’s house, partially damaged by the targeting of a nearby storehouse (18 May, 5:25 pm); Radwan family’s house located in the Bani Suhaila village, east of Khan Yunis (18 May, 6:00 pm); Mohammed Al-Shawaf’s house (18 May, 7:00 pm); Mohammed Bakr Al-Najjar (18 May, 7:30 pm); Baroud family’s house, suffered collateral damage as a result of attacks in Khan Yunis governorate, during which 30 rockets were fired (18 May, 10:05 pm); Abdul Sattar Ibrahim Al-Najjar’s house, whose roof was partially damaged (19 May, 1:00 am); Mahmoud Mustafa Al-Astal’s house inhabited by his family of seven including five children (19 May, 5:40 am); Usama Ali Tabash’s house, in Abasan al-Kabira village, east of Khan Yunis (19 May 6:30 am); Ashraf Al-Jabri’s two-storey door, targeted by two missiles including an unmanned drone (19 May, 11:00 am). Rafah City, Rafah: Jazzar family’s house, causing damage to two vehicles and a number of neighbouring houses (18 May, 11:15 am). Notably, on 19 May 2021, at 3:00 am, Israeli warplanes targeted a residential apartment, on the fifth floor of the Zoroub building, Saraya Junction, center of Gaza City, instantly killing Omar Muhammad Amin Ibrahim Al-Mankush, 19. Targeting Factories and Industrial Facilities On Monday, 17 May 2021, the IOF stationed behind the borders, east of Gaza City, bombed a number of factories and warehouses, located in the industrial zone east of the Shejaiya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, causing the destruction and burning of nine factories. Among the factories that were completely destroyed: Al-Harir Factory for the manufacture of chips, Siksak factory for plastic pipes, Al-Wadi factory for food industries, Maatouq ice cream factory, Clever detergents factory, Abu Iskandar nylon factory, Company PWS Renewable Energy, stores company ‘In your hand Maintenance,’ Rafiq Textiles & Readymade Garments Company. Furthermore, throughout the reporting period, IOF warplanes continued to bomb dozens of missiles in many areas of the Gaza Strip, targeting agricultural lands and sites of the Palestinian resistance. Several shells landed on a number of houses, forcing the residents of those areas to evacuate and seek shelter. Israeli gunboats stationed at sea also targeted the seashore. On 17 May 2021, at around 12:30 pm, an Israeli strike near the Maldives Rest House on the seashore, west of Gaza City, resulted in the killing of: Ali Walid Al-Abd Al-Abed Brayes, 30 Ahmed Khalil Hijazi Al-Louh, 23 Muhammad Jamal Ali Abu Saman, 24 Muhammad Hassan Hassan Abu Samaan, 31 On 19 May 2021, at approximately 8:30 am, IOF warplanes targeted the home of Hamas leader Dr. Atallah Abu Al-Subah, in Al-Jeneina neighbourhood, Rafah, resulting in the complete destruction of the two-storey house, and severely and partially damaging a number of neighbouring houses. Conclusion The IOF’s indiscriminate targeting of civilians and civilian residential, industrial and commercial units throughout the reporting period indicates that Israel may be committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip. In the conduct of hostilities, Israel must comply with the principle of distinction between civilian and military objects, as per Article 48 of the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, as well as the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks “which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated” as per Article 51(5)(b) of the First Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, also considered as customary law. In particular, the IOF’s unrelenting bombardment of Al-Rimal neighbourhood, and especially of medical structures and installations, has deleteriously impacted the functionality of health services, as well as on the ability of health workers to provide critical health care. In the conduct of hostilities, Israel must support in all its efforts the protection of hospitals, as well as the establishment of ‘hospitals and safety zones and localities,’ to ensure the protection of the civilian population, as per Article 14 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Al-Haq urges the international community to take immediate and effective measures to bring Israel in compliance with its obligations to spare and protect the Palestinian civilian population, and calls on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to include Israel’s 2021 military offensive on the Gaza Strip into the scope of its investigation for war crimes and crimes against humanity.[1] This report provides a preliminary non exhaustive report of the attacks on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday 18 May 2021.

[1](Field Period: 17-19 May 2021) Date: 21 May 2021  Between Monday 17 May 2021 and the afternoon of Wednesday 19 May 2021, while Palestinians from historic Palestine organized and joined a popular initiated general strike against Israeli oppression and in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) intensified attacks on civilian properties, including residential buildings, commercial properties as well as sites of the Palestinian resistance. The violence and severity of the Israeli attacks have even rendered it difficult for the medical units to identify the deceased. As of 18 May, one deceased civilian could not be identified, his body having been reduced to pieces due to several burns that conceal the features of his face. Al-Rimal, in Gaza City, already devastated by a series of previous bombings that had caused severe damage to the main road leading to Al-Shifaa hospital, was the target of an increased number of military strikes, gravely impairing the operation of health centers and services in the neighbourhood. As of 19 May 2021, at 9:30 am, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported 219 Palestinian casualties, including 63 children, and 1,530 wounded. Intensified Assault on Al-Rimal Neighbourhood, Severely Damaging Essential Health Structures  At noon, on Monday 17 May 2021, medical teams and Civil Defense rescue workers retrieved the body of Shaima Alaa Sohi Al-Awf, 21, buried under the rubble of her house, following another air strike of Al-Wehda Street, Al-Rimal neighbourhood, Gaza City, on Sunday 16 May 2021. The number of fatalities for the sole Al-Rimal neighbourhood now stands at 44, including 18 children and 13 women, as rescue teams continue to search for missing people.  At around 12:40 pm on Monday, 17 May 2021 an unmanned aerial drone, launched one missile at the home of the Al-Baz family, who were inside their home. The two-storey house is adjacent to a car workshop and is located along Salah El-Din Road near the entrance to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital Street in Deir Al-Balah, in the Central Governorate. Youssef Rafiq Ismail Al-Baz, 13, was killed and his brother Ramadan, 16, was seriously injured, and transferred in critical condition to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza requiring intensive care. The bombing also resulted in damage to the house and nearby cars. Later during the day, at approximately 6:45 pm, the IOF targeted, without prior warning, the last three floors of the six-storey Ghazi Shawa building, located opposite to the Rimal Martyrs Center, or Al-Rimal Clinic, and the administrative building of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, on Al-Wehda Street. The bombardment caused substantial damage to Al-Rimal Clinic and to the Ministry of Health, shattering many windows, doors, offices and medical rooms. The building contained a number of media offices, health centers and commercial companies, including the headquarters of the Islamic National Bank, the Dakhani Laboratory, the Reef Finance Corporation, the National Finance Company, and the Basma Clinic for Medicine and Dental Implants. The bombing lightly injured 10 civilians and killed two members of the Abu Dyer family:  Rafif Murshed Kamel Abu Dyer, 10, suffering massive hemorrhaging caused by the force of the explosion.  Ziad Kamel Abdullah Abu Dayer, 54, fatally injured by a shrapnel in his head.  Following the incident, the Ministry of Health, represented by Dr. Yusef Abu Al-Rish, Secretary, issued a statement to firmly condemn the targeting, endangering and wounding of health works and civilians and the deliberate targeting of health personnel and institutions. It was recorded that more than 103 members of medical teams working in the central laboratory, telemedicine, and various medical services were injured. The central laboratory and only coronavirus test center in the Gaza Strip, was forced to halt, and the provision of medical consultations related to the coronavirus pandemic was interrupted and severely impacted by the incapacitation of doctors and health workers.  In addition, Al-Haq monitored the direct targeting of: a group of civilians standing in the middle of Beit Lahia Street, North Gaza, near Hamouda private clinic, killing Ahmed Ziyad Hussein Sabah, 28, and Muhammad Nazeer Muhammad Abu Aoun, 18, and injuring a number of other civilians, on 17 May, at 5:35 pm.  Mahmoud Ramadan Omar Shteiwi, on 10th Street, causing his immediate death, on 18 May, at 5:00 pm. a group of civilians, in Al-Salam neighbourhood, east of the Crimean junction, Jabalia, North Gaza, on 19 May at around 11:00 am, killing Ammar Abdullah Fawzi Al Nader, 31. The Israeli warplanes carried out, at approximately 10:05 pm on 18 May 2021, a series of very violent raids, bombing some 12 rockets over the course of 15 minutes, targeting agricultural lands and crossroads, specifically the road leading to the Khirbet al-Adas area, north of Rafah. The bombing resulted in the death of Sa`dia Yousef Hussein Abu Gharara, 57, from the Rafah refugee camp, as a result of a cardiac arrest. Al-Haq also reported the death of a journalist, on 19 May 2021, at 4:30 am, the fourth and fifth floors of Muhammad Abdel Qader Muhammad Abu Hussein’s building, 63, located on Al-Galaa Street near Sheikh Radwan Junction, north of Gaza City, causing the death of Yousef Muhammad Abdel Qader Abu Hussein, 32, a journalist who works as a broadcaster for the local Voice of Al-Aqsa radio station, who is a husband and the father of three children. The bombing also completely destroyed the two targeted apartments, while a third missile fell below the house, and destroyed three civilian cars.  As the casualties escalated due to ongoing bombardments, civilians succumbed to their wounds after some days spent at the hospital. On 19 May, Al-Shifaa Hospital, Gaza City, announced the death of Firas Alaa Mohammed Al-Bahri, 20, from his injuries contracted with shrapnel on 13 May at around 1:45 pm, when an Israeli warplane targeted a group of civilians standing near Tower No. 19, Nada Towers, Ezbet Beit Hanoun, North Gaza.  Continued Targeting of Civilian Commercial Units Between Monday 17 May 2021 evening and Wednesday 19 May 2021, Al-Haq reported the complete destruction of four commercial and community buildings, home to a number of media outlets, administrative and educational institutions:  On 17 May 2021, at approximately 5:10 pm, the six-floor Mashareq building of the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, near Ansar South Junction, west of Gaza City, housing the Mashareq Media Company, the headquarters of the General Administration of Women's Work, the headquarters of the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, the headquarters of the Orphans Care Fund, the Al-Nahda Library and Talal Abu-Ghazaleh's audit office. The initial bombardment severely damaged the architecture. The building was the target of a second bombing at approximately 1:35 at dawn on 18 May 2021 that resulted in its complete destruction.  On 18 May 2021, at around 6:10 am, the fifth-floor Kahil building, on Jamal Abdel Nasser Street, located near the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) and the Islamic University, center of Gaza City, hosting the headquarters of educational institutions, the Samir Mansour Library, the Vision Press, the Dar Al-Manara Press and the Iqra Library. The building was completely destroyed.  On 18 May 2021, at around 7:30 pm, Rafah Central Reform and Rehabilitation Center, west of Rafah, completely destroying the building, and wounding two civilians. On 19 May 2021, at around 2:10 am, a two-storey building hosting the headquarters of the Development and Charitable Society Forum, located in Abasan, east of Khan Yunis was targeted and destroyed. The association was active in providing services and public charitable and development projects in the eastern region of Khan Yunis Governorate. Continued Targeting of Civilian Residential Units In addition, during the period 17 May 2021 - 19 May 2021, Al-Haq documented the targeting of 14 residential properties throughout the Gaza Strip, causing their partial or complete destruction, only four of the owners having reported prior warning by the IOF, including civilian properties in various locations throughout the Gaza Strip: Jabalia, North Gaza: Omar Suleiman’s three-storey building (17 May, 10:45 am), Raafat Muhammad Salman Salman’s two-storey building – causing damage to neighbouring houses (17/05, 11:05 am);  Yusef Al-Ladawi’s building (17 May, 12:30 pm); Asaad Deed Ahmed Tabail’s building (18 May, 4:30 pm);  Three civilian houses were targeted in Jabalia refugee camp, leading to their complete destruction: Ayman Siyam (17 May, 5:30 pm); Abd Al-Rahman Abu Al-Jabeen (17 May, 5:50 pm); Ramadan Ali Al-Abed Saleh (18 May, 5:35 pm); Abu Jalhoum family’s building (17/05, 12:30 pm), Abu Ajina family’s building (17 May, 6:35 pm); Ismail Hekmat Suleiman Junaid’s apartment in the 14-storey Al-Andalus Tower (18 May, 9:50 am); Ahmed Abdel Fattah Bakr Al-Kafarneh’s three-storey house (18 May, 10:50 am); Raed Yaqoub al-Kafarneh’s two-storey (18 May, 11:55 am); Ibrahim Muhammad Abdel Raziq Al-Kafarneh (18 May, 6:00 pm)  Ramez Kamal Ramadan Al-Masry (18/05, 3:50 pm); Anwar Nimr Musa (18 May, 10:00 pm). Gaza City Zaher Ramadan Musa Abu Al-Amreen’s house inhabited by three families including nine children, the bombing caused severe damage to his neighbour’s house, he was notified prior to the bombing (18 May, 12:20 pm); Al-Rantisi family’s five-storey house, inhabited by four families including nine children (18 May, 12:25 pm); Jalal Subhi Ismail Al-Thalathini’s two-storey house, inhabited by four families, the owner was asked to evacuate the house (19 May, 12:30 pm); Shihab Al-Din Mahmoud Ibrahim Al-Mashal’s two-storey house, inhabited by nine families, he was notified by the IOF prior to the bombing (18 May, 1:00 pm); Mustafa Khalaf Mustafa Dalloul’s two-storey house, containing two apartments and inhabited by 11 persons, including four children, the bombing completely destroyed the entire house and caused damage to two neighbouring houses, his son Khalaf was notified to evacuate the house (17 May, 3:30 pm); Ahmed Hassan Al-Barawi Al-Falouji’s six-storey building, inhabited by seven families, 70 persons, located near the Riad Al-Salheen Mosque in the Al-Sha’af neighbourhood (18 May, 7:00 pm); Subhi Mustafa Al-Dahdouh’s two-storey house, inhabited by three families (17 May, 9:10 pm). Maghazi and Al-Bureijj Camps, Deir Al-Balah Sabri Abdul Hakim Al-Hasanat’s two-storey house was targeted, causing severe damage to a number of adjacent houses, shops and civilian properties, Deir Al-Balah (19 May, 7:00 am);  Kamal Abu Sel’s house (18 May, 11:10 am);  Al-Masry family’s house, resulting in the partial damage of the house and wounding two civilians, Deir Al-Balah (19 May, 12:00 pm); Ayman Muhammad Saydam’s two-storey house, targeted by one drone and one warplane, was not inhabited (17 May, 3:30 pm);  Khan Yunis City, Khan Yunis Amjad Abu Al-Naja’s house, inhabited by his family of 7 members (17 May, 1:30 pm) Mahdi Jaber Kawareh’s inhabited by a family of nine members including seven children (17 May, 2:30 pm) Mohammed Jamal Al-Agha’s three-storey house (18 May, 3:15 pm); Asfour’s family farm, in Abadan Al-Jadida, east of Khan Yunis (17 May, 5:00 pm); Dardisi family’s house, partially damaged by the targeting of a nearby storehouse (18 May, 5:25 pm); Radwan family’s house located in the Bani Suhaila village, east of Khan Yunis (18 May, 6:00 pm); Mohammed Al-Shawaf’s house (18 May, 7:00 pm); Mohammed Bakr Al-Najjar (18 May, 7:30 pm); Baroud family’s house, suffered collateral damage as a result of attacks in Khan Yunis governorate, during which 30 rockets were fired (18 May, 10:05 pm); Abdul Sattar Ibrahim Al-Najjar’s house, whose roof was partially damaged (19 May, 1:00 am); Mahmoud Mustafa Al-Astal’s house inhabited by his family of seven including five children (19 May, 5:40 am); Usama Ali Tabash’s house, in Abasan al-Kabira village, east of Khan Yunis (19 May 6:30 am); Ashraf Al-Jabri’s two-storey door, targeted by two missiles including an unmanned drone (19 May, 11:00 am). Rafah City, Rafah:  Jazzar family’s house, causing damage to two vehicles and a number of neighbouring houses (18 May, 11:15 am).  Notably, on 19 May 2021, at 3:00 am, Israeli warplanes targeted a residential apartment, on the fifth floor of the Zoroub building, Saraya Junction, center of Gaza City, instantly killing Omar Muhammad Amin Ibrahim Al-Mankush, 19.  Targeting Factories and Industrial Facilities On Monday, 17 May 2021, the IOF stationed behind the borders, east of Gaza City, bombed a number of factories and warehouses, located in the industrial zone east of the Shejaiya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, causing the destruction and burning of nine factories. Among the factories that were completely destroyed: Al-Harir Factory for the manufacture of chips, Siksak factory for plastic pipes, Al-Wadi factory for food industries, Maatouq ice cream factory, Clever detergents factory, Abu Iskandar nylon factory, Company PWS Renewable Energy, stores company ‘In your hand Maintenance,’ Rafiq Textiles & Readymade Garments Company.  Furthermore, throughout the reporting period, IOF warplanes continued to bomb dozens of missiles in many areas of the Gaza Strip, targeting agricultural lands and sites of the Palestinian resistance. Several shells landed on a number of houses, forcing the residents of those areas to evacuate and seek shelter. Israeli gunboats stationed at sea also targeted the seashore. On 17 May 2021, at around 12:30 pm, an Israeli strike near the Maldives Rest House on the seashore, west of Gaza City, resulted in the killing of:  Ali Walid Al-Abd Al-Abed Brayes, 30 Ahmed Khalil Hijazi Al-Louh, 23 Muhammad Jamal Ali Abu Saman, 24 Muhammad Hassan Hassan Abu Samaan, 31 On 19 May 2021, at approximately 8:30 am, IOF warplanes targeted the home of Hamas leader Dr. Atallah Abu Al-Subah, in Al-Jeneina neighbourhood, Rafah, resulting in the complete destruction of the two-storey house, and severely and partially damaging a number of neighbouring houses.  Conclusion  The IOF’s indiscriminate targeting of civilians and civilian residential, industrial and commercial units throughout the reporting period indicates that Israel may be committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip. In the conduct of hostilities, Israel must comply with the principle of distinction between civilian and military objects, as per Article 48 of the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, as well as the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks “which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated” as per Article 51(5)(b) of the First Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, also considered as customary law.    In particular, the IOF’s unrelenting bombardment of Al-Rimal neighbourhood, and especially of medical structures and installations, has deleteriously impacted the functionality of health services, as well as on the ability of health workers to provide critical health care. In the conduct of hostilities, Israel must support in all its efforts the protection of hospitals, as well as the establishment of ‘hospitals and safety zones and localities,’ to ensure the protection of the civilian population, as per Article 14 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.     Al-Haq urges the international community to take immediate and effective measures to bring Israel in compliance with its obligations to spare and protect the Palestinian civilian population, and calls on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to include Israel’s 2021 military offensive on the Gaza Strip into the scope of its investigation for war crimes and crimes against humanity.    [1] This report provides a preliminary non exhaustive report of the attacks on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday 18 May 2021.

Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas reached a ceasefire early on Friday after two weeks of violence that have left hundreds dead and thousands more injured across the region. The hostilities began amid Israeli authorities’ crackdown on Palestinians in Jerusalem, first in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, then at al-Aqsa Mosque. According to the latest official information from Palestinian and Israeli sources, at least 292 people were been killed between 7 and 21 May, including at least 71 children and 45 women.  Explained: Why did Israel bomb Gaza? Read More » The vast majority were Palestinian: Israeli air strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip killed at least 248 Palestinians, while a further 29 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Another two Palestinian citizens of Israel have been reported killed by Israeli fire. In Israel, 12 people have been reported killed by rockets launched from Gaza by Hamas, among them two children, two Palestinian citizens of Israel, two Thai citizens, and one Indian national. One person was also killed by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians. During the past two weeks, Middle East Eye has compiled a list of names, ages and genders of  those killed, using available information from official Palestinian and Israeli sources, including the Gaza Ministry of Health, and MEE’s own reporting on the ground. This list is far from exhaustive. The chaos that has hit the region means that many people have yet to be publicly identified; for some – especially in Gaza – the date of death has yet to be released. It has not yet been possible to ascertain exactly which of those killed in Gaza were Hamas and Islamic Jihad members, though the vast majority are thought to be civilians. New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch Sign up to get the latest insights and analysis on Israel-Palestine, alongside Turkey Unpacked and other MEE newsletters The list will be updated as more details emerge. Friday 7 May, 2021 West Bank Aballah Khaled Daabas, 20, M Mohamed Ayman Fathi, 20, M Monday 10 May, 2021 Gaza Mohammad Abdullah Fayyad, 26, M Mohammad Ali Mohammad Nusseir, 24, M Esmat Shaaban al-Zein, 49, M Zakariya Ziad Alloush, 18, M Bashir Mohammad Alloush, 56, M Raed al-Abed Abu Warda, 29 , M Nabil Numan Dardouna, 34, M Mustafa Mohammad Obeid, 17, M Yazan Sultan al-Masri, 2, M Ahmad Atallah al-Masri, 21, M Ibrahim Youssef al-Masri, 11, M Rahaf Mohammed al-Masri, 10, F Marwan Youssef al-Masri, 7, M Tuesday 11 May, 2021 Gaza Amira Abdelfattah Subuh, 58 , F Abdulrahman Youssef Subuh, 19, M Sameh Fahim Hashem al-Mamlouk, 66, M Kamal Taysir Qreiqe, 34, M Salim Mohammed al-Farra, 38, M Mohammad Yahya Abu al-Ata, 30, M Mohammad Abdulraouf Hallas, 34, M Iyad Fathi Fayeq Sharir, 45, M Layali Taha Sharir, 41, F Mina Iyad Sharir, 2, F Lina Iyad Sharir, 16, F West Bank Ahmad Abd el-Fattah Daraghma, 38, M Israel Moussa Hassona, 31, M Khalil Awad, 56, M Nadeen Khalil Awad, 16, F Soumya Santosh, 30, F Unidentified, 80, F Unidentified, 50, F Unidentified, F Wednesday 12 May, 2021 Gaza Bassem Subhi Issa, 56, M Reema Saad Saad, 31, F Zaid Mohammad Telbani, 5, M West Bank Hussein Atiyyeh Titi, 26, M Rashid Muhammad Abu Arreh, 16, M Mohammed Omar Saeed al-Najjar, 36, M Israel Omer Tabib, 21, M Ido Avigal, 5, M Thursday 13 May, 2021 Gaza Hala Hussein al-Rifi, 14, F Friday 14 May, 2021 West Bank Youssef Nawasra, 27, M Mohammed Ruhi Hammad, 30, M Awad Ahmed Harb, 27, M Mohammed Adel Shegirat, 20, M Sharif Khaled Suleiman, 37, M Issa Barham, 30, M Nidal Sael Safadi, 30, M Hossam Asaireh, 20, M Malek Hamdan, 21, M Ismail al-Tobasi, 26, M Nizar Riyad Marouf Abu Zainah, 24, M Lebanon Mohammed Tahhan, M Saturday 15 May, 2021 Gaza Maha Mohammad al-Hadidi, 36, F Yahya Mohammed al-Hadidi, 11, M Suhaib Mohammad al-Hadidi , 13, M Ousama Mohammad al-Hadidi, 6, M Abdulrahman Mohammad al-Hadidi, 8, M Maryam Alaa Abu Hattab, 8, F Yamen Alaa Abu Hattab, 6, M Bilal Alaa Abu Hattab, 6, M Youssef Alaa Abu Hattab, 11, M Yasmeen Hassan, 31, F West Bank Wajdi Jaafra, 30, M Sunday 16 May, 2021 Gaza Abir Nimr Eshkuntana, 30, F Dana Riad Eshkuntana, 9, F Yahya Riad Eshkuntana, 5, M Lana Riad Eshkuntana, 6, F Zayn Riad Eshkuntana, 2, M Tala Ayman Abu al-Auf, 13, F Tawfiq Ayman Abu al-Auf, 18, M Ayman Abu al-Auf, 50, M Rula Mohammad Mueen al-Qulaq, 6, F Yara Mohammad Mueen al-Qulaq, 10, F Hala Mohammad Mueen al-Qulaq, 13, F Hanaa Shukri al-Qulaq , 15, F Mira Rami al-Efranji, 12, F Dima Rami al-Efranji, 16, F West Bank Tareq Snobar, 27, M Yassine Hasan Hamad, 25, M Jerusalem Shaher Abu Khadija, 41, M Monday 17 May, 2021 Gaza Rafeef Murshed Abu Dayer, 10, F West Bank Obeida Akram Jawabreh, 18, M Tuesday 18 May, 2021 West Bank Islam Fayyad Zahda, 31, M Mohammed Ishaq Hamid, 25, M Adham Fayyez Kashef, 20, M Islam Wael Burnat, 16, M Israel Weerawat Karunborirak, 44, M Sikarin Sa-ngamrum, 24, M Wednesday 19 May, 2021 Gaza Yusef Qadir Abu Hussein, 32, M Deema Asaliyeh, 11, F West Bank Wafa Abdel-Rahman al-Baraadi, 37, F Israel Mohammed Kiwan, 17, M Thursday 20 May, 2021 West Bank Muntaser Mahmoud Jawabreh, 29, M Undated fatalities Gaza Note: Besides those named below, a further 31 casualties in Gaza are still unidentified Yasmeen Mohammed Abu Hattab, 31, F Ahmed Mohammed al-Sabah , 29, M Rafif Murshed Abu Dayer, 11, F Yahya Mansour Ghaban, 30, M Mahmoud Mohammed al-Madhoun, 30, M Mahmoud Hamed Talba, 13, M Mahmoud Ramadan Shteiwi, 19, M Bashar Ahmad Samour, 17, M Yahya Mazen Khalifeh, 14, M Ibrahim Abdullah Hasanin, 16, M Bara Wissam al-Gharabli, 6, M Hamza Mahmoud Ali, 12, M Ammar Taysir al-Amour, 11, M Hamada Attieh al-Amour, 13, M Khaled Emad al-Qanua, 17, M Lina Mohammed Issa, 14, F Amir Rafat al-Tanani, 7, M Ahmad Rami al-Hawajri, 14, M Adham Rafat al-Tanani, 4, M Mohammed Rafat al-Tanani, 3, M Ismail Rafat al-Tanani, 8, M Mohammed Salameh Abu Diaa, 1, M Hur Mumin al-Zamli, 2, F Ibrahim Mohammed al-Rantisi, 1, M Fawzia Nasser Abu Fares, 17, F Islam Mohammed al-Attar, 8, F Amira Mohammed al-Attar, 6, F Mohammed Zein al-Attar, 1, M Buthaina Mahmoud Obeid, 6, F Abdallah Ashraf Jawda, 13, M Mueen al-Alloul, 67, M Wael Abdulkarim Issa, 41, M Akram Mohammed al-Attar, 37, M Ibrahim Ahmad al-Shambari, 20, M Mansour Youssef al-Darimli, 66, M Aatef Abdulrahman al-Barawi , 48, M Talaat Jamil Agha, 37, M Halima Ali al-Madhoun, 66, F Abdulrahim Mohammed al-Madhoun, 63, M Manar Abdulkarim Baraka, 18, M Munther Abdulkarim Baraka, 21, M Mohammed Abdulmoneim Shahin, 27, M Majed Abdrabbuh Saada, 58, M Mahmoud Ahmad Abu Ammar, 38, M Mayami Abdullah Arafeh, 50, F Mahmoud Jamil Kulusa, 29, M Mustafa Mazen Kurdiyeh, 32, M Saeed Hashem al-Hatu, 67, M Abdelsalam Mahmoud al-Ghazali, 29, M Hamad Iyad al-Dabari , 86, M Hassan Mohammed al-Qahwaji, 43, M Ezzeddin Mohammed Hallas, 28, M Jumaa Abdullah al-Talha, 59, M Maysoun Zaki al-Hatu, 60, F Wael Mahmoud al-Ghawla, 48, M Mohammad Said Abu al-Atta, 32, M Hamza Mahmoud al-Hour, 25,M Mohammed Mueen al-Quraa, 27, M Ahmad Walid al-Talaa, 30, M Mohammed Ahmad Abu Amsha, 36, M Mohammed Nahas Abu Sakran, 26, M Abdelaziz Abdelhamid Abu Taaima, 25, M Nader Mohammad al-Ghazali , 47, M Ahmad Ibrahim Abu Sakran, 65, M Hadil Khaled Arafeh, 28, F Jamal Mohammad al-Zibda, 65, M Mujahid Majed al-Hadidi, 30, M Hazem Misbah al-Khatib, 41, M Mustafa Mohammad Farhat, 26, M Mahmoud Mohammad Fares, 38, M Awwad Nabil Abu Salmiya, 34, M Usama Jamal al-Zibda, 33, M Nidal Habib Hana, 36, M Thafer Mazen al-Shawa, 40, M Nael Khaled al-Barawi, 23, M Sami Said Radwan, 41, M Muayed Taysir al-Khatib, 20, M Manar Khader Issa, 39, F Abdulrahman Sbeiti Azzam, 34, M Mustafa Hassan al-Aabid, 38, M Rafat Mohammad al-Tanani, 39, M Rawiya Fathi al-Tanani, 36, M Suhaib Abdulrahim Ghanem, 25, M Hashem Mohammed al-Zaghi, 21, M Naameh Saleh Ayyesh, 47, F Siham Youssef Ghazara, 66, F Sabreen Nasser Abu Diaa, 28, F Shaima Diab Moussa, 21, F Raed Ibrahim al-Rantisi, 29, M Nisreen Nasser Abu Qaliq, 26, F Khuloud Fouad al-Zamli, 27, F Mohammed Khaled al-Tawashi, 21, M Hussam Bakr al-Haya, 33, M Saqr Abdulmajid al-Haya, 27, M Hadil Mohammed Amn, 19, F Walaa Mohammed Amn, 25, F Warda Mohammed Amn, 22, F Lamia Hassan al-Attar, 27, F Moussa Ghaleb Madi, 25, M Fayza Ahmad Salameh, 44, F Mohammed Ibrahim Amn, 52, M Mahmoud Mohammed Khaled, 25, M Ahmad Mohammed al-Najjar, 33, M Walid Zuheir Abu Shab, 23, M Ahmed Awad al-Nedir , 37, M Abdullah Ashraf Jawdeh, 13, M Youssef Hatem al-Mansi, 23, M Ahmed Hatem al-Mansi, 35, M Mohammed Salem Abu Ayesh, 35, M Saifeddine Abu al-Atta, 19, M Feryal Mohammed Attallah, 40, F Adam Mohammed al-Faraoui, 19, M Said Khaled Abu Ghalyoun, 27, M Ahmed Iyad Fattouh, 22, M Tarek Ziad Abu Hmaidan, 20, M Louai Mohammed Odeh, 55, M Mohammed Ahmed Abhar , 17, M Hazem Adel al-Qamaa, 48, M Zaher Atieh Anbar, 38, M Khaled Salem al-Masalha, 50 , M Riham Fawaz al-Kulk, 33, F Fawaz Ameen al-Kulk, 63, M Abdelhamid Fawaz Kulk, 23, M Sameh Fawaz al-Kulk, 29, M Qusai Sameh al-Kulk, 1, M Ahmed Shukri al-Qulaq, 16, M Mohammed Mueen al-Qulaq, 42, M Ayat Ibrahim al-Qulaq, 19, F Saadieh Youssef al-Qulaq, 84, F Taher Shukri al-Qulaq, 24, M Ezzat Mueen al-Qulaq, 44, M Zeid Ezzat al-Qulaq, 8, M Adam Ezzat al-Qulaq, 4, M Amal Jameel al-Qulaq, 42, F Duaa Umar al-Qulaq, 39, F Bahaa Ameen al-Qulaq, 49, F Ameen Mohammed Hamad al-Qulaq , 90, M Reem Ahmed Abu al-Auf, 41, F Sobhiyeh Ismail Abu al-Auf, 73, F Tawfiq Ismail Abu al-Auf, 80, M Majdieh Khalil Abu al-Auf, 82, F Rawan Alaa Abu al-Auf, 18, F Shaimaa Alaa Abu al-Auf, 21, F Amir Rami al-Efranji, 9, M Yazan Rami al-Efranji, 13, M Rajaa Sobhi al-Efranji , 41, F Mohammed Aouni al-Zaanin, 26, M Mohammed Youssef Abdullah, 31, M Sameh Jihad al-Qadi, 23, M Tarek Mahmoud al-Qadi, 39, M Moath Nabil al-Zaanin, 27, M Hussam Mohammed Abu Harbeed, 37, M Ahmed Fayez Abu Arafat, 29, M Youssef Rafiq al-Baz, 13, M Adeeb Said al-Sourani, 43, M Ahmed Khalil al-Loh, 24, M Mohammed Jamal Abu Semaan, 24, M Mohammed Hassan Abu Semaan, 32, M Ali Walid Breiss, 30, M Ziad Kamel Abu Diar, 54, M Ahmed Ziad Sabah, 29, M Mohammed Nathir Abu Aoun, 19, M Israel Note: Besides those named above, a further two casualties in Israel are still unidentified Sources: Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health, Times of Israel, Arab48, Jerusalem Post, ABC News, India.com. Research by Mohammed al-Hajjar, Shatha Hammad, Chloé Benoist, Huthifa Fayyad and Heba Nasser.

Just minutes after the war between Israel and Hamas broke out, a 5-year-old boy named Baraa al-Gharabli was killed in Jabaliya, Gaza. A 16-year-old, Mustafa Obaid, was killed in the same strike, on the evening of May 10. Around the same time, four cousins — Yazan al-Masri, 2, Marwan al-Masri, 6, Rahaf al-Masri, 10, and Ibrahim al-Masri, 11 — were killed in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. “It was devastating,” said Mukhlis al-Masri, a cousin. “The pain for our family is indescribable.” Hussein Hamad, 11 Ibrahim Hassanain, 16 Muhammad Suleiman, 15 Hamza Ali, 12 Mina Sharir, 2, and Lina Sharir, 15, sisters Nearly all of the children killed were Palestinian. Gaza is crowded and its population skews young, with about half under age 18. So when Israeli warplanes hit homes and residential neighborhoods, the number of children at risk is extraordinary. Sometimes nearly entire households disappear with a single blast. Israel blames Hamas for the high civilian death toll in Gaza because the group fires rockets and conducts military operations from civilian areas. Israel’s critics cite the death toll as evidence that Israel’s strikes were indiscriminate and disproportionate. Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza Strip, on May 15. Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Children are the most vulnerable. In Gaza, they grow up amid widespread poverty and high unemployment, and cannot freely travel in or out of the territory because of the blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt. They also live under the constant threat of war. An average 15-year-old would have lived through four major Israeli offensives. Nearly everyone in Gaza knows someone who has been killed in the fighting. “When I think about the children who died,” said Ola Abu Hasaballah, a child psychologist in Gaza, “I also think about the ones who survive, those who were pulled out of the rubble and lost a limb, or those who will go to school and see their friend is missing.” In the Arab village of Dahmash in central Israel, when the sirens wailed around 3 a.m. on May 12, Nadine Awad, 16, and her father ran outside for cover, said her uncle, Ismail Arafat. But a rocket fired by militants in Gaza slammed into the ground next to their home, killing both of them. Nadine was a top student, her academic adviser, Sirin Slameh, said. She spoke English proficiently, taught herself how to play the piano and participated in Jewish-Arab coexistence programs, Ms. Slameh said. The week before, she had scored a 97 on a math exam, a subject she had struggled with. She was very close to her father, Mr. Arafat said, and would follow him everywhere. “The sad part is she followed him outside when the sirens blared,” he said, “and now she has followed him to the grave.” Zaid Talbani, 4, and Miriam Talbani, 2, siblings Hala Rifi, 13 Bashar Samour, 17 The funeral of Mina Sharir, 2. Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times While most of the children were Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes, there are exceptions. At least two of the children killed in Gaza — Baraa al-Gharabli and Mustafa Obaid — may have been killed when Palestinian militants fired a rocket at Israel that fell short, according to an initial investigation by Defense for Children International-Palestine. And one of the children killed in Israel, Nadine Awad, was Palestinian. “The rockets don’t differentiate between Arabs and Jews,” said Ismail Arafat, her uncle. Once the war started, Ido Avigal, 5, was so anxious that he did not want to sleep, shower or eat alone, said Shani Avigal, his mother. When sirens started blaring in Sderot, Israel, he huddled with his family in a fortified safe room at his aunt’s home. But when a rocket hit a nearby building, shrapnel punctured the thick glass of the safe room, tearing into his stomach and killing him. Ms. Avigal said her son was caring and loving, and had recently told his classmates that “not all Arabs are bad.” “I said they all don’t want to kill us,” he told his mother. “I eventually convinced them.” The same day, May 12, Hamada al-Emour, 13, went with his cousin, Ammar al-Emour, 10, to get haircuts at a barber shop — a tradition among many Palestinians before the festival that follows the end of Ramadan. They were nearly back home in Khan Younis when an Israeli airstrike killed them both, said Atiya al-Emour, Hamada’s father, who said he witnessed his son’s death. “I wish I didn’t see what happened to him,” said Mr. al-Emour. “It was awful.” Mahmoud Tolbeh, 12, was an excellent student, his father, Hamed Tolbeh, said. He liked the sciences and dreamed of becoming a mechanical engineer. He was helpful around the house, making eggs and sandwiches for his siblings, tea and coffee for guests, cleaning the house and picking up groceries. “He was the backbone of our family,” Mr. Tolbeh said. “We could rely on him for anything.” On the last night of Ramadan, he went to help a cousin at his barber shop. Mahmoud was steps from the shop’s entrance, his father said, when shrapnel from an Israeli airstrike hit his head and neck. He died two days later. His sister Nagham cradled his body. “He had a bright future,” Mr. Tolbeh said. “But it was buried with him in the grave.” Nagham Tolbeh mourned over the body of her brother, Mahmoud.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Yahya Khalifa, 13, enjoyed riding his bike, had memorized several chapters of the Quran and hoped to one day visit the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. “He was an innocent and sweet boy,” his father, Mazen Khalifa, said. He went out to run a quick errand, promising to pick up yogurt and ice cream for the family, his father said, and was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Four brothers: Amir Tanani, 6, Ahmad Tanani, 2, Ismail Tanani, 7, and Adham Tanani, 4 (not pictured). The identities of the children killed, their photographs and the circumstances of their deaths came from their parents and other relatives, teachers and schools in Gaza and Israel, international rights organizations, Palestinian officials, social media, and news organizations in Gaza and Israel. Most of the details were corroborated by multiple sources. Khaled Qanou, 17 Ahmad al-Hawajri, 14 The Israeli military says that it takes rigorous precautions to prevent civilian deaths. It says a major part of its bombing campaign was aimed at Hamas’s underground tunnel network, a military facility that runs underneath civilian neighborhoods. Many people in Gaza, however, say that the number of civilians killed proves that whatever precautions Israel may be taking are tragically insufficient. “People think there has to be some rationale,” said Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, “but the bottom line is they want to inflict pain and suffering.” The mother and brother of Yahya Khalifa, 13. Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times The low toll on the Israeli side also reflected an imbalance in defensive capabilities. Hamas and other militant groups fired more than 4,000 rockets at Israeli towns and cities, also indiscriminately. But most were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system, which Israeli officials said stopped about 90 percent of the rockets. And many Israelis have safe rooms in their homes. In Gaza, most people have no access to safe rooms or shelters. Many people seek refuge in the United Nations schools, but they too have been bombed, reinforcing a feeling that anyone could be killed anywhere. Even in Israel, Arab citizens don’t always have equal access to bomb shelters. Ms. Awad, who was killed by a rocket from Gaza, lived in an Arab village with no bomb shelter. Lina Issa, 13 Fawziya Abu Faris, 17, woke up early every morning in Umm al-Nasr, a Bedouin community in northern Gaza, to milk her family’s sheep and make fresh cheese and yogurt, said her father, Nasser Abu Faris. Muhammad Abu Dayyeh, 9 months Hoor al-Zamli, 2 Ibrahim al-Rantisi, 6 months It was shortly after midnight in Beit Lahia, Gaza, and the three terrified children were huddled in their mother’s arms. Muhammad-Zain al-Attar, 9 months, sat in the middle, his sister, Amira al-Attar, 6, and brother, Islam al-Attar, 8, on either side. The first strike hit the entrance of their ground floor apartment, trapping the family and making it impossible to flee, the father, Muhammad al-Attar, said. The second, moments later, brought the three story building down. Mr. al-Attar dug himself out of the rubble and survived. His wife and children were crushed under a concrete pillar, their bodies found still together. Abdullah Jouda, 12 Mental health experts and independent organizations who work with children in Gaza say they commonly suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fear and anxiety. Those feelings can produce debilitating nightmares and self-destructive or aggressive behavior. A Palestinian boy next to the remains of his home in Gaza City.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times “Gaza is already a very violent and terrorizing experience for children because they are under constant military rule,” said Karl Schembri, a spokesman for the Norwegian Refugee Council, which runs a psychotherapy and education program for children in Gaza. Eleven of the children the group works with were killed this month, all of them in their homes. “They were getting assistance and care to try and put behind them their nightmares and their trauma,” Mr. Schembri said. “Now they are buried with their dreams and their nightmares.” Butheina Obaid, 6 Suheib al-Hadidi, 12, lived with his parents and four brothers in the crowded Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. He was fascinated by birds, which had a freedom he could only imagine. He owned a cockatiel, trained it to sit on his shoulder and envisioned a future as a breeder, his cousin, Abdullah al-Hadidi, said. His brother, Yahya al-Hadidi, 10, was a shy boy who liked riding his bike and playing with cats, Mr. al-Hadidi said. Osama al-Hadidi, 5, was considered one of the most stylish members of his family. He changed clothes frequently and took pains to perfect his looks, Mr. al-Hadidi said. “He would shower and change his clothes every two hours.” Abdurrahman al-Hadidi, 7, studied English, dreamed of traveling to Turkey and liked playing with remote-control cars, his father, Muhammad al-Hadidi, said. The four brothers were asleep at their uncle and aunt’s home, Muhammad al-Hadidi said, when an Israeli bomb ripped through the ceiling, killing them, their mother, their aunt and four cousins. Yamen Abu Hatab, 5, Bilal Abu Hatab, 9, Miriam Abu Hatab, 7, and Yousef Abu Hatab, 10 Palestinians carrying the bodies of children from the Abu Hatab family who were killed in an Israeli airstrike.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Mohammad Bhar, 17 The al-Qawlaq family owned two adjacent apartment buildings on Al Wahda Street, a main thoroughfare in Gaza City. At around 1 a.m. on May 16, Israeli strikes reduced both buildings to rubble, killing more than 20 members of the extended family, including eight children: Yara al-Qawlaq, 9, Hala al-Qawlaq, 12, Rula al-Qawlaq, 5, Zaid al-Qawlaq, 8, Qusai al-Qawlaq, 6 months, Adam al-Qawlaq, 3, Ahmad al-Qawlaq, 15, and Hana al-Qawlaq, 14 (not pictured). “It’s unimaginable,” said Waseem al-Qawlaq, who survived. “It’s beyond torture.” Searching for victims from the al-Qawlaq family.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Dima al-Ifranji, 15, far left, was the oldest child and the apple of her father’s eye. She was one of the top students in her class, spoke English and French, and dreamed of studying medicine, her father, Rami al-Ifranji, said. “She was brilliant,” he said. “She was a master of foreign languages.” Her brother, Yazan al-Ifranji, 13, was a bright child, often the first to answer questions in class, Mr. al-Ifranji said. He liked playing soccer and listening to music, and hoped to become a computer engineer. Mira al-Ifranji, 11, imagined a future as a dentist. And Amir al-Ifranji, 9, was a polite child with a vibrant smile who loved playing soccer and video games on his phone. An Israeli airstrike on May 16 killed all four children and their mother. It was late at night and even though the feast celebrating the end of Ramadan was over, Dana Ishkontana, 9, and Lana Ishkontana, 5, wanted to dress up in their new holiday outfits. Their uncle, Raed Ishkontana, snapped pictures on his phone while their two brothers, Yahya Ishkontana, 4, and Zain Ishkontana, 2, watched, Mr. Ishkontana recalled. Then he stepped out to get snacks for the family, chocolate candy bars and potato chips. The four children and their mother were killed in an Israeli airstrike, he said. “I wish I never left,” he said. Raed Ishkontana, who survived an airstrike, mourning the loss of his wife and four children.Hosam Salem for The New York Times Her father called her “Galaxy.” Tala Abu Elouf, 13, he thought, had skin the color of a Galaxy chocolate bar. She was quick with a joke and her father, Dr. Ayman Abu Elouf, adored her, said Alaa Abu Elouf, her cousin. Her brother, Tawfiq Abu Elouf, 17, was a serious student, intensely prepping for the standardized tests Palestinians take in their senior year of high school, Mr. Abu Elouf said. Brother, sister, mother and father were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Al Wahda Street in Gaza City on May 16, Mr. Abu Elouf said. Yousef al-Baz, 13 Rafeef Abu Dayer, 10, liked to draw. She had sketched one of the high-rise buildings that an Israeli airstrike destroyed in Gaza City two days earlier and had started to color in her drawing when her mother called her for lunch. “You can go back to drawing after you eat,” her mother said. The girl sat down for lunch with 13 relatives in a private residential garden. Minutes later, Israel attacked a building nearby, an uncle said. Shrapnel and rubble struck Rafeef. She and another uncle were killed. The drawing Rafeef Abu Dayer, 10, was working on before she was killed.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Nagham Salha, 2 On May 19, the day before Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire, Dima Asaliyah, 10, was walking home from her older sister’s house carrying an electric pizza oven. It was a small one, her father, Saad Asaliyah, said, the size of a soccer ball, that the family used to bake bread. An Israeli surveillance drone had been hovering overhead, and Mr. Asaliyah now wonders if Israeli soldiers mistook it for a weapon. “Maybe their alarms went off because of the stove,” he said. “But did they not see how small she was?” There was an explosion, and his youngest child was gone. “Do you see her picture?” he asked.“She’s worthy of our grief.”

Just minutes after the war between Israel and Hamas broke out, a 5-year-old boy named Baraa al-Gharabli was killed in Jabaliya, Gaza. A 16-year-old, Mustafa Obaid, was killed in the same strike, on the evening of May 10. Around the same time, four cousins — Yazan al-Masri, 2, Marwan al-Masri, 6, Rahaf al-Masri, 10, and Ibrahim al-Masri, 11 — were killed in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. “It was devastating,” said Mukhlis al-Masri, a cousin. “The pain for our family is indescribable.” Hussein Hamad, 11 Ibrahim Hassanain, 16 Muhammad Suleiman, 15 Hamza Ali, 12 Mina Sharir, 2, and Lina Sharir, 15, sisters Nearly all of the children killed were Palestinian. Gaza is crowded and its population skews young, with about half under age 18. So when Israeli warplanes hit homes and residential neighborhoods, the number of children at risk is extraordinary. Sometimes nearly entire households disappear with a single blast. Israel blames Hamas for the high civilian death toll in Gaza because the group fires rockets and conducts military operations from civilian areas. Israel’s critics cite the death toll as evidence that Israel’s strikes were indiscriminate and disproportionate. Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza Strip, on May 15.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Children are the most vulnerable. In Gaza, they grow up amid widespread poverty and high unemployment, and cannot freely travel in or out of the territory because of the blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt. They also live under the constant threat of war. An average 15-year-old would have lived through four major Israeli offensives. Nearly everyone in Gaza knows someone who has been killed in the fighting. “When I think about the children who died,” said Ola Abu Hasaballah, a child psychologist in Gaza, “I also think about the ones who survive, those who were pulled out of the rubble and lost a limb, or those who will go to school and see their friend is missing.” In the Arab village of Dahmash in central Israel, when the sirens wailed around 3 a.m. on May 12, Nadine Awad, 16, and her father ran outside for cover, said her uncle, Ismail Arafat. But a rocket fired by militants in Gaza slammed into the ground next to their home, killing both of them. Nadine was a top student, her academic adviser, Sirin Slameh, said. She spoke English proficiently, taught herself how to play the piano and participated in Jewish-Arab coexistence programs, Ms. Slameh said. The week before, she had scored a 97 on a math exam, a subject she had struggled with. She was very close to her father, Mr. Arafat said, and would follow him everywhere. “The sad part is she followed him outside when the sirens blared,” he said, “and now she has followed him to the grave.” Zaid Talbani, 4, and Miriam Talbani, 2, siblings Hala Rifi, 13 Bashar Samour, 17 The funeral of Mina Sharir, 2.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times While most of the children were Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes, there are exceptions. At least two of the children killed in Gaza — Baraa al-Gharabli and Mustafa Obaid — may have been killed when Palestinian militants fired a rocket at Israel that fell short, according to an initial investigation by Defense for Children International-Palestine. And one of the children killed in Israel, Nadine Awad, was Palestinian. “The rockets don’t differentiate between Arabs and Jews,” said Ismail Arafat, her uncle. Once the war started, Ido Avigal, 5, was so anxious that he did not want to sleep, shower or eat alone, said Shani Avigal, his mother. When sirens started blaring in Sderot, Israel, he huddled with his family in a fortified safe room at his aunt’s home. But when a rocket hit a nearby building, shrapnel punctured the thick glass of the safe room, tearing into his stomach and killing him. Ms. Avigal said her son was caring and loving, and had recently told his classmates that “not all Arabs are bad.” “I said they all don’t want to kill us,” he told his mother. “I eventually convinced them.” The same day, May 12, Hamada al-Emour, 13, went with his cousin, Ammar al-Emour, 10, to get haircuts at a barber shop — a tradition among many Palestinians before the festival that follows the end of Ramadan. They were nearly back home in Khan Younis when an Israeli airstrike killed them both, said Atiya al-Emour, Hamada’s father, who said he witnessed his son’s death. “I wish I didn’t see what happened to him,” said Mr. al-Emour. “It was awful.” Mahmoud Tolbeh, 12, was an excellent student, his father, Hamed Tolbeh, said. He liked the sciences and dreamed of becoming a mechanical engineer. He was helpful around the house, making eggs and sandwiches for his siblings, tea and coffee for guests, cleaning the house and picking up groceries. “He was the backbone of our family,” Mr. Tolbeh said. “We could rely on him for anything.” On the last night of Ramadan, he went to help a cousin at his barber shop. Mahmoud was steps from the shop’s entrance, his father said, when shrapnel from an Israeli airstrike hit his head and neck. He died two days later. His sister Nagham cradled his body. “He had a bright future,” Mr. Tolbeh said. “But it was buried with him in the grave.” Nagham Tolbeh mourned over the body of her brother, Mahmoud.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Yahya Khalifa, 13, enjoyed riding his bike, had memorized several chapters of the Quran and hoped to one day visit the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. “He was an innocent and sweet boy,” his father, Mazen Khalifa, said. He went out to run a quick errand, promising to pick up yogurt and ice cream for the family, his father said, and was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Four brothers: Amir Tanani, 6, Ahmad Tanani, 2, Ismail Tanani, 7, and Adham Tanani, 4 (not pictured). The identities of the children killed, their photographs and the circumstances of their deaths came from their parents and other relatives, teachers and schools in Gaza and Israel, international rights organizations, Palestinian officials, social media, and news organizations in Gaza and Israel. Most of the details were corroborated by multiple sources. Khaled Qanou, 17 Ahmad al-Hawajri, 14 The Israeli military says that it takes rigorous precautions to prevent civilian deaths. It says a major part of its bombing campaign was aimed at Hamas’s underground tunnel network, a military facility that runs underneath civilian neighborhoods. Many people in Gaza, however, say that the number of civilians killed proves that whatever precautions Israel may be taking are tragically insufficient. “People think there has to be some rationale,” said Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, “but the bottom line is they want to inflict pain and suffering.” The mother and brother of Yahya Khalifa, 13.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times The low toll on the Israeli side also reflected an imbalance in defensive capabilities. Hamas and other militant groups fired more than 4,000 rockets at Israeli towns and cities, also indiscriminately. But most were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system, which Israeli officials said stopped about 90 percent of the rockets. And many Israelis have safe rooms in their homes. In Gaza, most people have no access to safe rooms or shelters. Many people seek refuge in the United Nations schools, but they too have been bombed, reinforcing a feeling that anyone could be killed anywhere. Even in Israel, Arab citizens don’t always have equal access to bomb shelters. Ms. Awad, who was killed by a rocket from Gaza, lived in an Arab village with no bomb shelter. Lina Issa, 13 Fawziya Abu Faris, 17, woke up early every morning in Umm al-Nasr, a Bedouin community in northern Gaza, to milk her family’s sheep and make fresh cheese and yogurt, said her father, Nasser Abu Faris. Muhammad Abu Dayyeh, 9 months Hoor al-Zamli, 2 Ibrahim al-Rantisi, 6 months It was shortly after midnight in Beit Lahia, Gaza, and the three terrified children were huddled in their mother’s arms. Muhammad-Zain al-Attar, 9 months, sat in the middle, his sister, Amira al-Attar, 6, and brother, Islam al-Attar, 8, on either side. The first strike hit the entrance of their ground floor apartment, trapping the family and making it impossible to flee, the father, Muhammad al-Attar, said. The second, moments later, brought the three story building down. Mr. al-Attar dug himself out of the rubble and survived. His wife and children were crushed under a concrete pillar, their bodies found still together. Abdullah Jouda, 12 Mental health experts and independent organizations who work with children in Gaza say they commonly suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fear and anxiety. Those feelings can produce debilitating nightmares and self-destructive or aggressive behavior. A Palestinian boy next to the remains of his home in Gaza City.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times “Gaza is already a very violent and terrorizing experience for children because they are under constant military rule,” said Karl Schembri, a spokesman for the Norwegian Refugee Council, which runs a psychotherapy and education program for children in Gaza. Eleven of the children the group works with were killed this month, all of them in their homes. “They were getting assistance and care to try and put behind them their nightmares and their trauma,” Mr. Schembri said. “Now they are buried with their dreams and their nightmares.” Butheina Obaid, 6 Suheib al-Hadidi, 12, lived with his parents and four brothers in the crowded Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. He was fascinated by birds, which had a freedom he could only imagine. He owned a cockatiel, trained it to sit on his shoulder and envisioned a future as a breeder, his cousin, Abdullah al-Hadidi, said. His brother, Yahya al-Hadidi, 10, was a shy boy who liked riding his bike and playing with cats, Mr. al-Hadidi said. Osama al-Hadidi, 5, was considered one of the most stylish members of his family. He changed clothes frequently and took pains to perfect his looks, Mr. al-Hadidi said. “He would shower and change his clothes every two hours.” Abdurrahman al-Hadidi, 7, studied English, dreamed of traveling to Turkey and liked playing with remote-control cars, his father, Muhammad al-Hadidi, said. The four brothers were asleep at their uncle and aunt’s home, Muhammad al-Hadidi said, when an Israeli bomb ripped through the ceiling, killing them, their mother, their aunt and four cousins. Yamen Abu Hatab, 5, Bilal Abu Hatab, 9, Miriam Abu Hatab, 7, and Yousef Abu Hatab, 10 Palestinians carrying the bodies of children from the Abu Hatab family who were killed in an Israeli airstrike.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Mohammad Bhar, 17 The al-Qawlaq family owned two adjacent apartment buildings on Al Wahda Street, a main thoroughfare in Gaza City. At around 1 a.m. on May 16, Israeli strikes reduced both buildings to rubble, killing more than 20 members of the extended family, including eight children: Yara al-Qawlaq, 9, Hala al-Qawlaq, 12, Rula al-Qawlaq, 5, Zaid al-Qawlaq, 8, Qusai al-Qawlaq, 6 months, Adam al-Qawlaq, 3, Ahmad al-Qawlaq, 15, and Hana al-Qawlaq, 14 (not pictured). “It’s unimaginable,” said Waseem al-Qawlaq, who survived. “It’s beyond torture.” Searching for victims from the al-Qawlaq family.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Dima al-Ifranji, 15, far left, was the oldest child and the apple of her father’s eye. She was one of the top students in her class, spoke English and French, and dreamed of studying medicine, her father, Rami al-Ifranji, said. “She was brilliant,” he said. “She was a master of foreign languages.” Her brother, Yazan al-Ifranji, 13, was a bright child, often the first to answer questions in class, Mr. al-Ifranji said. He liked playing soccer and listening to music, and hoped to become a computer engineer. Mira al-Ifranji, 11, imagined a future as a dentist. And Amir al-Ifranji, 9, was a polite child with a vibrant smile who loved playing soccer and video games on his phone. An Israeli airstrike on May 16 killed all four children and their mother. It was late at night and even though the feast celebrating the end of Ramadan was over, Dana Ishkontana, 9, and Lana Ishkontana, 5, wanted to dress up in their new holiday outfits. Their uncle, Raed Ishkontana, snapped pictures on his phone while their two brothers, Yahya Ishkontana, 4, and Zain Ishkontana, 2, watched, Mr. Ishkontana recalled. Then he stepped out to get snacks for the family, chocolate candy bars and potato chips. The four children and their mother were killed in an Israeli airstrike, he said. “I wish I never left,” he said. Raed Ishkontana, who survived an airstrike, mourning the loss of his wife and four children.Hosam Salem for The New York Times Her father called her “Galaxy.” Tala Abu Elouf, 13, he thought, had skin the color of a Galaxy chocolate bar. She was quick with a joke and her father, Dr. Ayman Abu Elouf, adored her, said Alaa Abu Elouf, her cousin. Her brother, Tawfiq Abu Elouf, 17, was a serious student, intensely prepping for the standardized tests Palestinians take in their senior year of high school, Mr. Abu Elouf said. Brother, sister, mother and father were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Al Wahda Street in Gaza City on May 16, Mr. Abu Elouf said. Yousef al-Baz, 13 Rafeef Abu Dayer, 10, liked to draw. She had sketched one of the high-rise buildings that an Israeli airstrike destroyed in Gaza City two days earlier and had started to color in her drawing when her mother called her for lunch. “You can go back to drawing after you eat,” her mother said. The girl sat down for lunch with 13 relatives in a private residential garden. Minutes later, Israel attacked a building nearby, an uncle said. Shrapnel and rubble struck Rafeef. She and another uncle were killed. The drawing Rafeef Abu Dayer, 10, was working on before she was killed.Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Nagham Salha, 2 On May 19, the day before Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire, Dima Asaliyah, 10, was walking home from her older sister’s house carrying an electric pizza oven. It was a small one, her father, Saad Asaliyah, said, the size of a soccer ball, that the family used to bake bread. An Israeli surveillance drone had been hovering overhead, and Mr. Asaliyah now wonders if Israeli soldiers mistook it for a weapon. “Maybe their alarms went off because of the stove,” he said. “But did they not see how small she was?” There was an explosion, and his youngest child was gone. “Do you see her picture?” he asked. “She’s worthy of our grief.”

The lost children: Rahaf Mohammed Atallah Al-Masry, 10 Beit Hanoun, May 10, 2021 Yazan Sultan Atallah Al-Masry, 12 months Beit Hanoun, May 10, 2021 Marwan Youssef Atallah Al-Masry, 6 Beit Hanoun, May 10, 2021 Ibrahim Youssef Atallah Al-Masry, 10 Beit Hanoun, May 10, 2021 Ibrahim Abdullah Hassanein, 15 Beit Hanoun, May 10, 2021 Hussein Munir Hussain Hamad, 10 Beit Hanoun, May 10, 2021 Ido Avigal, 5 Sderot, Israel, May 12 Nadine Awad, 16 Dahmash, Israel, May 12 2021 Dana Riad Ashkantna, 9 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Adam Izzat Moeen Al-Kulk, 3 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Zaid Izzat Moein Al-Kulk, 8 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Hanaa Shukri Al-Kulk, 14 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Zain Riad Ashkantna, 8 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Yahya Riad Ashkantna, 5 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Yara Mohammed Al-Kulk, 9 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Rola Mohammed Moein Al-Kulk, 6 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Hala Muhammad Muin Al-Kulk, 13 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Ahmed Shukri Al-Kulk, 16 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Qusay Sameh Al-Kulk, 18 months Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Dima Rami Al-Franji, 16 years Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Mira Ramy Al-Franji, 12 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Amir Rami Al-Franji, 9 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Rami Al-Franji, 13 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Tawfiq Ayman Abu Al-Auf, 16 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Tawfiq Ayman Abu Al-Auf, 16 years Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Tala Ayman Abu Al-Auf, 12 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Nadine Awad, 16 Dahmash, Israel, May 12, 2021 Ido Avigal, 5 Sderot, Israel, May 12, 2021 Buthaina Mahmoud Issa Obaid, 6 Jabalia camp, May 19, 2021 Dima Saad Ali Asalia, 10 Jabalia, May 19, 2021 Nagham Iyad Abdel Fattah Salha, 2 Deir Al-Balah, May 19, 2021 Youssef Rafiq Al-Baz 13 Deir Al-Balah, May 17, 2021 Menna Iyad Fathy Sherir, 3 Gaza City, May 12, 2021 Lina Iyad Fathy Sherir, 16 Gaza City, May 12, 2021 Rafif Murshid Abu Dyer, 11 Gaza City, May 17, 2021 Mohammed Ahmed Attia Bahar, 17 Gaza City, May 15, 2021 Osama Muhammad Subhi Al-Hadidi, 6 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15 Yahya Muhammad Subhi Al-Hadidi, 11 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2021 Suhaib Muhammad Subhi Al-Hadidi, 12 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15 2021 Abdul Rahman Muhammad Subhi Al-Hadidi, 7 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2021 Bilal Alaa Abu Hatab, 9 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2021 Youssef Alaa Abu Hatab, 10 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2021 Maryam Alaa Abu Hatab, 9 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2021 Yamen Alaa Abu Hatab, 5 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2021 Abdullah Ashraf Judeh, 12 Nuseirat camp, May 14, 2021 Amir Raafat Al-Tanani, 6 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Ismail Raafat Al-Tanani, 7 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Mohamed Raafat Al-Tanani, 3 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Adham Raafat Al-Tanani, 4 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Lina Mohammed Mahmoud Issa, 13 Al-Bureij camp, May 13, 2021 Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Rantisi, 2 Al-Geneina, May 13, 2021 Ahmed Rami Mahmoud Al-Hawajri, 15 Al-Bureij camp, May 13, 2021 Mahmoud Hamed Hassan, 13 Gaza City, May 14, 2021 Hor Al Zamili, 18 months Rafah, May 13, 2021 Hala Hussein Raafat, 14 Gaza, May 12, 2021 Yahya Mazen Shehdeh Khalifa, 14 Gaza City, May 12, 2021 Khaled Emad Al-Qanooa, 16 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Ammar Tayseer Mohammed Al-Amor, 11 Khan Yunis, May 12, 2021 Hamada Attia Abed Al-Amour, 13 Khan Yunis, May 12, 2021 Maryam and Zaid Mohammed Odeh Al-Talbani, 3 and 5 Gaza City, May 12, 2021 Baraa Wissam Ahmed Gharabli, 4 Jabalia, May 11, 2021 Hamza Nassar, 11 Gaza City, May 12, 2021 Bashar Ahmed Samour, 17 Khan Yunis, May 12, 2021 Mustafa Muhammad Obaid, 17 Jabalia, May 12, 2021 Mohammed Saber Ibrahim Suleiman, 16 Jabalia, May 11 Doaa Iyad Shyrup, 12 Khan Yunis, May 20, 2021 Zakaria Ziyad Muhammad Alloush, 18 Jabalia, May 10, 2021 Islam Al-Attar, 5 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Amira Al-Attar, 6 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Zaid Al-Attar, 5 months Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Fawzia Abu Faris, 17 years Beit Lahia, May 13 2021 Muhammad Abu Dayeh, 10 months The Bedouin village, May 13, 2021 By Salem Al Rayyas and Ahmed MaherDesign Nick Donaldson

The lost childrenRahaf Mohammed Atallah Al-Masry, 10 Beit Hanoun, May 10, 2021 Yazan Sultan Atallah Al-Masry, 12 months Beit Hanoun, May 10, 2021 Marwan Youssef Atallah Al-Masry, 6 Beit Hanoun, May 10, 2021 Ibrahim Youssef Atallah Al-Masry, 10 Beit Hanoun, May 10, 2021 Ibrahim Abdullah Hassanein, 15 Beit Hanoun, May 10, 2021 Hussein Munir Hussain Hamad, 10 Beit Hanoun, May 10, 2021 Ido Avigal, 5 Sderot, Israel, May 12 Nadine Awad, 16 Dahmash, Israel, May 12, 2021 Dana Riad Ashkantna, 9 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Adam Izzat Moeen Al-Kulk, 3 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Zaid Izzat Moein Al-Kulk, 8 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Hanaa Shukri Al-Kulk, 14 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Zain Riad Ashkantna, 8 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Yahya Riad Ashkantna, 5 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Yara Mohammed Al-Kulk, 9 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Rola Mohammed Moein Al-Kulk, 6 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Hala Muhammad Muin Al-Kulk, 13 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Ahmed Shukri Al-Kulk, 16 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Qusay Sameh Al-Kulk, 18 months Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Dima Rami Al-Franji, 16 years Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Mira Ramy Al-Franji, 12 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Amir Rami Al-Franji, 9 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Rami Al-Franji, 13 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Tawfiq Ayman Abu Al-Auf, 16 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Tawfiq Ayman Abu Al-Auf, 16 years Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Tala Ayman Abu Al-Auf, 12 Gaza City, May 16, 2021 Nadine Awad, 16 Dahmash, Israel, May 12, 2021 Ido Avigal, 5 Sderot, Israel, May 12, 2021 Buthaina Mahmoud Issa Obaid, 6 Jabalia camp, May 19, 2021 Dima Saad Ali Asalia, 10 Jabalia, May 19, 2021 Nagham Iyad Abdel Fattah Salha, 2 Deir Al-Balah, May 19, 2021 Youssef Rafiq Al-Baz, 13 Deir Al-Balah, May 17, 2021 Menna Iyad Fathy Sherir, 3 Gaza City, May 12, 2021 Lina Iyad Fathy Sherir, 16 Gaza City, May 12, 2021 Rafif Murshid Abu Dyer, 11 Gaza City, May 17, 2021 Mohammed Ahmed Attia Bahar, 17 Gaza City, May 15, 2021 Osama Muhammad Subhi Al-Hadidi, 6 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15 Yahya Muhammad Subhi Al-Hadidi, 11 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2021 Suhaib Muhammad Subhi Al-Hadidi, 12 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2021 Abdul Rahman Muhammad Subhi Al-Hadidi, 7 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2021 Bilal Alaa Abu Hatab, 9 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2021 Youssef Alaa Abu Hatab, 10 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2021 Maryam Alaa Abu Hatab, 9 Al-Shati refugee camp , May 15, 2021 Yamen Alaa Abu Hatab, 5 Al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2021 Abdullah Ashraf Judeh, 12 Nuseirat camp, May 14, 2021 Amir Raafat Al-Tanani, 6 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Ismail Raafat Al-Tanani, 7 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Mohamed Raafat Al-Tanani, 3 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Adham Raafat Al-Tanani, 4 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Lina Mohammed Mahmoud Issa, 13 Al-Bureij camp, May 13, 2021 Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Rantisi, 2 Al-Geneina, May 13, 2021 Ahmed Rami Mahmoud Al-Hawajri, 15 Al-Bureij camp, May 13, 2021 Mahmoud Hamed Hassan, 13 Gaza City, May 14, 2021 Hor Al Zamili, 18 months Rafah, May 13, 2021 Hala Hussein Raafat, 14 Gaza, May 12, 2021 Yahya Mazen Shehdeh Khalifa, 14 Gaza City, May 12, 2021 Khaled Emad Al-Qanooa, 16 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Ammar Tayseer Mohammed Al-Amor, 11 Khan Yunis, May 12, 2021 Hamada Attia Abed Al-Amour, 13 Khan Yunis, May 12, 2021 Maryam and Zaid Mohammed Odeh Al-Talbani, 3 and 5 Gaza City, May 12, 2021 Baraa Wissam Ahmed Gharabli, 4 Jabalia, May 11, 2021 Hamza Nassar, 11 Gaza City, May 12, 2021 Bashar Ahmed Samour, 17 Khan Yunis, May 12, 2021 Mustafa Muhammad Obaid, 17 Jabalia, May 12, 2021 Mohammed Saber Ibrahim Suleiman, 16 Jabalia, May 11 Doaa Iyad Shyrup, 12 Khan Yunis, May 20, 2021 Zakaria Ziyad Muhammad Alloush, 18 Jabalia, May 10, 2021 Islam Al-Attar, 5 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Amira Al-Attar, 6 Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Zaid Al-Attar, 5 months Beit Lahia, May 13, 2021 Fawzia Abu Faris, 17 years Beit Lahia, May 13 2021 Muhammad Abu Dayeh, 10 months The Bedouin village, May 13, 2021 By Salem Al Rayyas and Ahmed MaherDesign Nick Donaldson

#Urgent Shehab correspondent: The martyrdom of Youssef Rafiq Al-Baz, 13 years old, has been announced. He succumbed to his injuries, along with another boy, 16 years old, after they were targeted by reconnaissance aircraft near Al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip.

#عاجل مراسل شهاب: الإعلان عن ارتقاء الشهيد يوسف رفيق الباز 13 عاما متأثرا بإصابته برفقة فتى آخر 16 عاما جراء استهدافهم من قبل طيران الاستطلاع قرب مستشفى الأقصى وسط القطاع

#Urgent | A house east of Deir al-Balah, near the Al-Aqsa entrance, was targeted, resulting in the martyrdom of 13-year-old child Youssef Rafiq al-Baz and another serious injury.

#عاجل | استهداف منزل شرق ديرالبلح بالقرب من المؤن مدخل الاقصى وإرتقاء الشهيد الطفل يوسف رفيق الباز 13عام واصابة اخرى خطيرة

Student Youssef Rafiq Al-Baz, seventh grade, Rudolf Filter (A) Boys' School in the Central Governorate, was martyred as a result of the ongoing Zionist aggression against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. #GazaUnderAttack

استشهاد الطالب/ يوسف رفيق الباز، الصف السابع، مدرسة رودلف فلتر( أ) للبنين بمديرية تعليم الوسطى وذلك نتيجة العدوان الصهيوني المتواصل على أبناء شعبنا الفلسطيني في محافظات قطاع غزة #GazaUnderAttack

*Al-Aqsa Hospital received two boys, Ramadan Rafiq Al-Baz, 16 years old, and Youssef Rafiq Al-Baz, 13 years old, in critical condition after being targeted by reconnaissance aircraft in front of the entrance to Al-Aqsa Hospital.*

*وصول مشفى الأقصى كلاً من الفتى/ رمضان رفيق الباز 16 عام والفتى/ يوسف رفيق الباز 13 عام وحالتهم خطيرة إثر استهدافهم من قبل طيران الاستطلاع من أمام مدخل مشفى الأقصى.*

The child Youssef Rafiq Al-Baz, 13 years old, was killed as a result of the targeting of his family's home near Al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip. His brother is still alive but injured and in critical condition. There was no other fatality in the attack.

استشهاد الطفل يوسف رفيق الباز "13 عاماً" جراء إستهداف منزل ذويه قرب مستشفى الأقصى وسط قطاع غزة وأخيه ما زال حياً مصاباً وحالته خطيرة ولا شهيد ثاني في الإستهداف

The procession of martyrs continues. My uncle's house was bombed without warning, and my cousin Ramadan Rafiq Al-Baz was seriously injured, while his cousin's brother, the young Yusuf Rafiq Al-Baz, was martyred. To God we belong and to Him we shall return. May they rest in eternal paradise, God willing. Glory and eternity to our righteous martyrs.

وتتوالي قوافل الشهداء تم قصف منزل عمي بدون سابق إنذار وإصابة ابن العم إصابة خطيرة :رمضان رفيق الباز واستشهاد أخية ابن العم الفتى: يوسف رفيق الباز إن لله وإنا إليه راجعون الي جنات الخلد بإذن الله المجد والخلود لشهدائنا الأبرار

#Urgent | The martyrdom of Youssef Rafiq Al-Baz, 13 years old, has been announced. He succumbed to his injuries, along with another boy, 16 years old, after they were targeted by reconnaissance aircraft near Al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip.

#عاجل | الإعلان عن ارتقاء الشـ هيد يوسف رفيق الباز 13 عاما متأثرا بإصابته برفقة فتى آخر 16 عاما جراء استهدافهم من قبل طيران الاستطلاع قرب مستشفى الأقصى وسط القطاع

Urgent | Palestine Event Agency Correspondent The martyrdom of 13-year-old Youssef Rafiq al-Baz has been announced. He succumbed to injuries sustained when he and a 16-year-old boy were targeted by an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft near al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip. #GazaUnderAttack #GazaResists #Palestine

عاجل| مراسل وكالة فلسطين الحدث الإعلان عن ارتقاء الشهيد يوسف رفيق الباز 13 عاما متأثرا بإصابته برفقة فتى آخر 16 عاما جراء استهدافهم من قبل طيران الاستطلاع قرب مستشفى الأقصى وسط القطاع. #غزه_تحت_القصف #غزه_تقاوم #فلسطين

The death of 13-year-old Youssef Rafiq al-Baz has been announced. He succumbed to injuries sustained when he and a 16-year-old boy were targeted by an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft near al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip. #OngoingCoverage

الإعلان عن ارتقاء الشهيد يوسف رفيق الباز 13 عاما متأثرا بإصابته برفقة فتى آخر 16 عاما جراء استهدافهم من قبل طيران الاستطلاع قرب مستشفى الأقصى وسط القطاع #التغطية_مستمرة

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We say only what pleases God. #We announce to you the martyrdom of our cousins, the brothers Ramadan Rafiq Al-Baz and Youssef Rafiq Al-Baz, in Gaza, the city of Hashim Al-Azza. We ask God Almighty to accept them in the highest ranks of Paradise, and we congratulate their parents on this high rank. Victory is near, God willing. #Gaza

لا نقول الا ما يرضي الله #نزف اليكم استشهاد ابناء عمومتنا الاخوين رمضان رفيق الباز ويوسف رفيق البازفي غزة هاشم العزة سائلين المولى عز وجل ان يتقبلهم في عليين ونهنىء والديهم بهذه الدرجة العالية والنصر قريب باذن الله #غزة