GAZA, May 25 (NNN-WAFA) – The death toll from the Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip that ended on Friday, reached 253, medics said yesterday.
In an update on the death toll, the health ministry in Gaza said that, 253 Palestinians were killed, including 66 children, 39 women and 17 elderly people, and 1948 were injured, including 20 in critical conditions.
Yesterday, the ministry said that, two young men succumbed to their critical wounds, as a result of the Israeli airstrikes, adding that, the bodies of four Palestinians were retrieved from under building rubbles.
On Friday, Egypt brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, ending 11 days of a tit-for-tat trade of fire between the two sides.
Meanwhile, the Hamas movement held a large popular rally in Gaza city, to commemorate the Palestinians killed in the Israeli airstrikes. Relatives and representatives of the Palestinian factions attended.
The Israeli measures in East Jerusalem, the clashes between the police and the worshippers at al-Aqsa Mosque, and the decision to evict Palestinian families at Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in the city, ignited the round of violence in Gaza.
