RAMALLAH: On Monday night, a Palestinian woman in the Gaza Strip died as a result of injuries sustained during Israeli airstrikes during its latest military offensive, which ended after a fragile ceasefire was brokered through Egyptian channels and went into effect last Wednesday. After Sabah Al-Sakafi was injured in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, she was transferred to an Egyptian hospital, where she died on Monday evening. Ahmad Mashrawi, another Palestinian man who was initially injured when an Israeli rocket struck his garden the week before, died earlier on Monday, the third fatality from his family as a result of Israeli attacks during the 8 day military offensive, Arabic media sources report. The blast also killed an 11-month-old child, Mashrawi's nephew, as well as his pregnant sister-in-law. According to a joint statement released by the Palestinian Human Rights Organization Council (PHROC), 162 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes during the latest round of fighting, the majority of whom were civilians, including 37 children and 13 women. Three Israeli civilians were killed when a rocket directly struck a civilian home in southern Israel. The PHROC statement also states that 1,039 Palestinians were injured, 315 of which are said to have been children. It adds that 963 civilian homes were destroyed or sustained damages, and 92 from the total were completely reduced to rubble. Other sites struck include mosques, schools, hospitals, banks, commercial centers, and media offices, among others. The PHROC called on an impartial international investigation into the war.
