Three killed in separate assaults in Gaza Metropolis as Rafah border reopens for restricted medical evacuations.
Printed On 19 Mar 2026
Not less than three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli drone strikes in war-battered Gaza, practically two and a half years into Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave, as severely restricted medical evacuations restarted by way of the Rafah border crossing.
Medical doctors at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza Metropolis mentioned two folks had been killed in a drone strike within the Zeitoun neighbourhood, within the jap a part of Gaza Metropolis.
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In a separate assault, one particular person was killed and one other wounded when a drone struck a gaggle of individuals in one other space of jap Gaza Metropolis, exterior the so-called “Yellow Line”. An unspecified variety of Palestinians had been wounded in Thursday’s assaults.
Israel’s struggle on Gaza has killed greater than 72,000 folks, amongst them tens of 1000’s of kids and girls. Some unbiased researchers imagine the true variety of these killed is considerably increased.
The strikes got here as a primary, restricted group of wounded Palestinians was evacuated from Gaza by way of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, after a 19-day closure by Israel, because it began bombing Iran.
The Palestinian Purple Crescent Society mentioned solely eight Palestinians who had been injured in Israeli assaults through the Gaza struggle and 17 of their members of the family could be allowed into Egypt for medical remedy after the crossing, seen as a lifeline for Palestinians, reopened on Thursday.
A number of ambulances had been seen ready to evacuate sufferers from the territory.
Israel has restricted medical evacuations and prevented Palestinians from returning dwelling because it reopened the crossing in early February as a part of a October 2025 ceasefire settlement – which it has violated virtually each day since.
