RAMALLAH: For the third consecutive day, a Palestinian has died from injuries sustained during Israel's latest military offensive in the Gaza Strip, Ma'an News Agency said. Mahmoud Shaat was seriously wounded during an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza a week earlier, and on Wednesday morning he passed away in an Egyptian hospital. 21-year-old Shaat was transferred to Egypt after being hit during an Israeli attack on a car in Rafah. His death came exactly one week after Egyptian negotiators helped ensure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, putting an end to 8 days of fighting that left over 160 Palestinians, almost half of whom are estimated to have been civilians, and four Israelis dead, three of which were civilians. Israeli military sources claim to have struck over 1,500 “terror" sites across the coastal enclave. Palestinian militants fired roughly the same amount of rockets into Israel, though to little comparative effect. On Monday two Gazans also died from injuries incurred by Israeli airstrikes on densely populated areas across the narrow coastal enclave. One of the Monday's fatalities was a woman who was injured during an airstrike on Gaza City. The other was a man hit by rocket shrapnel and burned when an Israeli strike hit his garden and killed his 11-month-old nephew and sister-in-law on the spot. Shaat's body will be returned to Gaza for a funeral, Ma'an added.
