Gaza Genocide21 September, 20262 min read
Israeli Forces Kill Woman And Child In Gaza, Including Fida’ Khader Totah
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Israeli forces killed Palestinians amid shooting and shelling across Gaza, with casualties reported across zones. On the day, four fatalities were reported in Gaza from Israeli attacks, per Palestinian health authorities and media.
Deaths in Gaza Strip
Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinians, including a woman and a child, and wounded several others amid shooting and shelling across the northern, central, and southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources reported that Fida’ Khader Totah, 31, was killed after Israeli soldiers shot her in the head on Salahuddin Street in central Gaza on Monday morning.
Medical sources said the child, Ismael al-Bardawil, was killed after Israeli military vehicles fired at Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area, west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, and he was struck in the chest. In Gaza City, Israeli tanks opened heavy fire on eastern areas while artillery shelled locations north and east of the city, and the Palestinian Civil Defense said artillery fire also struck areas east of Gaza City and south of Khan Younis.
Satellite View and Destruction
Highly precise satellite images revealed broad areas of total destruction and active Israeli military concentrations in the northern and eastern parts of the Gaza Strip, with the images captured in 2025 and sourced from the Israeli Mapping Center servers. The images showed a nearly complete survey of residential neighborhoods and extensive depredation of infrastructure in Beit Hanoun, at the far north of the Strip, and they also showed severe destruction affecting residential blocks in Shuja’iyya, east of Gaza City.
The review described Israeli concentration at the Kerem Shalom crossing area southeast of Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, with reinforcements forming a lifeline for ground operations during the war. The report also said the images revealed artillery emplacements in the northern incursion and concentration zones, with vehicles situated within earthen fortifications, and it added that Israel has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians since October 7, 2023.
Casualties and Legal Stakes
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Israel has now killed 1,394 Palestinians and injured 4,839, and it added that 834 slain Palestinians were located. Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, said the events in Gaza cannot be separated from their historical context and that the coastal enclave has been under siege since 2006.
Sourani called for international legal mechanisms to be put into effect, for those responsible for violations in Gaza to be held accountable, and for international humanitarian law to be applied without political selectivity. Sourani also said the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide not only criminalizes genocide but also obligates states to take measures to prevent it.