The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) widescale and deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip, including bombing of houses on top of residents, mass killings, including wiping out entire families, separating the central Gaza Strip from Gaza City via Salah al-Deen Street, and issuing further displacement orders. All these acts indicate Israel’s insistence on continuing its crime of genocide against the Palestinians.
For the third day, IOF continues pounding the Gaza Strip with heavy airstrikes while the repercussions of the Israeli siege and starvation policy intensify, aggravating the catastrophic humanitarian crisis endured by 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. by this, Israel puts the residents in front of dire choices- to die from bombardment or hunger and lack of adequate medical treatment.
According to information collected by PCHR’s field researchers, the airstrikes mainly targeted houses and tents across the Gaza Strip, destroying them on top of their residents and displaced families and committing mass killings by burying them under the rubble. Moreover, the airstrikes targeted gatherings, including condolences houses, as well as shelters, and it is obvious that the majority of the fatalities were civilians, including women and children.
The most significant crimes documented by our field researchers were as follows:
Thursday, 20 March 2025
At around 12:44, IOF declared its ground invasion in the last hours into the coastal axis in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip.1
At around 10:20, Israeli warplanes targeted a house belonging to al-Batrawi Family in ‘Abasan al-Kabirah, eastern Khan Younis, killing five Palestinians- a couple and their 3 children.
At around 04:15, Israeli warplanes targeted Abu Halimah family house, northern al-‘Atatrah neighborhood in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. As a result, 18 Palestinians were killed, including 5 women and 9 children, amongst them 2 babies, while others were injured and remained missing under the rubble.
At around 03:30, Israeli warplanes targeted a house for Abu Naser family in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. As a result, 11 were killed, including 5 children and 3 women, while others were injured and remained missing under the rubble.
At around 03:10, Israeli warplanes bombed a house for Jaber Family in al-Zuhour neighborhood in Rafah City. As a result, 6 members of the family were killed, including 2 women and a girl.
At around 03:00, Israeli warplanes targeted a house belonging to Abu Deeb family in Bani Suhaila area, eastern Khan Younis, killing Soliman Ahmed Abu Deeb (58) and his 2 daughters, Mariam (14) and Maram (22).
At around 02:50, Israeli warplanes attacked Sa’id al-‘Omour’s house in al-Fukhari village, southeastern Khan Younis. As a result, 4 of its residents were killed, including his elderly wife, daughter, daughter-in-law and nephew- a child while the houseowner sustained moderate injuries as well as other neighbors.
Around the same time, the Israeli warplanes bombed Hani Abu Daqqa’s house in al-Fukhari village, killing 12 of its residents, including 7 children and 2 women.
At around 02:40, Israeli warplanes targeted a house belonging to al-Majaydah family, southern Khan Younis, destroying it on top of its residents and killing the entire family, including the parents and their 5 children. They were ‘Abdel Rahman Nabil al-Majaydaah (44), his wife Aya Yousif ‘Abed al-Majaydah (36) and their children, Yasmin (17), Yousif (16), Nabil (14), Jenan (12) and Tia (8 months)
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
At around midnight, Israeli warplanes targeted a tent housing displaced families in the proximity of Asdaa area, western Khan Younis. As a result, Rasha Nedal Ibrahim Abu Hendi (27) and her son, Amir Seraj Ibrahim al-Hmeidi (18 months) were killed while 3 others were injured.
At around 14:40, an Israeli drone targeted a civilian vehicle- blue Skoda with an attached trailer- while driving near al-Yasmin Mall in Musabeh neighborhood, northern Rafah. As a result, seven were killed, including 2 lawyers, and others sustained various injuries.
At around 16:30, an Israeli warplane targeted a house belonging to al-Kafarnah family, eastern Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. as a result, 4 Palestinians were killed, including a woman and 3 siblings, amongst them a woman and a girl. Moreover, others were injured and remained trapped under the rubble. Those killed were identified as: Nibal Faraj ‘Abdel Hadi al-Kafarnah (26) and siblings: Ayman (25), Eman (28), Jowan (2) Jalal Mahmoud al-Kafarnah.
At around 16:50, Israeli warplanes bombed tents housing displaced families, northwestern Mawawsi Khan Younis, killing 4 Palestinians, including 2 women and a child.
At around 17:15 on Wednesday, 19 March 2025, Israeli warplanes bombed a condolences house for Mubarak family at al-Salateen square in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. as a result, 11 were killed, including 3 children, and 33 others were wounded, including 3 children.
On the same day, IOF started a ground invasion in central and southern Gaza Strip and repositioned along the Salah al-Deen Road, which separates Gaza City from central Gaza Strip at Nitzarim. IOF declared their aim to expand the security zone and establish a buffer zone between the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip.2
The Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets ordering the residents of Khuza’ah and ‘Abasan al-Kabirah villages, eastern Khan Younis and Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip to evacuate their homes to Khan Younis and Gaza Cities.
Tuesday 18 March 2025
Between 13:00 and midnight, Israeli warplanes conducted several airstrikes across Gaza City alongside artillery shelling. As a result, 26 Palestinians were killed, including 5 children and 3 women, while 23 others were injured and taken to al-Shifa and al-Ma’madani Hospitals in Gaza.
Since Israel’s resumption of its widescale military aggression in the Gaza Strip at dawn last Tuesday, the death toll has risen to 590 Palestinians, the majority of whom are children and women, while hundreds more have been injured with tens remaining trapped under the rubble amid no equipment for the civil defense teams to retrieve them.
PCHR warns of Israel’s returning to commit extensive mass killings, intensify its policy of starvation and deprivation of medical treatment that will claim thousands of further lives either by direct bombardment or devastating repercussions of the ongoing siege. All this will deteriorate the already catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip that has not seen any improvement over the past months.
PCHR calls on the international community to take decisive and urgent measures to stop the ongoing crime of genocide and hold the Israeli leaders accountable for their atrocious crimes. PCHR also urges the state parties to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to fulfil their legal obligations and take urgent action to protect the Palestinian civilians from the genocide and mass killings.
