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One fine morning in February, 3-year-old Palestinian boy Imad Hazem excitedly rushed to buy oranges from a street vendor. Eager to eat his favorite fruit, he hurried back home.

While crossing a street in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza City, three kilometers from the city center, an Israeli sniper shot and killed him and his 20-year-old cousin Hadeel on the spot.

A graphic video documenting the crime went viral on social media, showing the bodies of the young child and his cousin.

In January, an Israeli sniper killed 13-year-old Nahid and 20-year-old Ramez Barbak in the Al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip.

Following Israel's evacuation orders, Nahid was waving a white flag above his head when he was shot just outside his house. Ramez ran to save his younger brother, only to be shot in the chest, falling over Nahid and the white flag.

Their bodies remained unattended on the road for hours as their family, unable to approach due to continuous Israeli gunfire and bombings, watched helplessly.

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PressTV

The genocidal war on Gaza launched by the Israeli regime on October 7 last year completed 300 days on Thursday, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction with nearly 40,000 Palestinians killed. Human rights watchdogs, however, believe the death toll is much higher as thousands remain missing, trapped under the rubble and ruins.

In the past ten months, the Israeli military has dropped 82,000 tonnes of explosives on Gaza, carried out 3,457 massacres in the territory, and displaced almost the entire 2.3 million population, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

Among those killed by the apartheid regime in these 300 days of the genocidal war were nearly 16,314 children and 10,980 women.

Here are some of the gory massacres that Israel carried out in the coastal strip in the past 300 days with complete impunity provided by the US and other Western allies.

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Humaira Ahad
PressTV

The Israeli military, after launching the indiscriminate aerial bombardment three weeks ago, warned Gazans to leave their homes in the north and flee to the south “for their own safety.”

Like thousands of other Palestinians, 32-year-old poet and writer Heba Abu Nada also abandoned her home in the north, and sought refuge with her relatives in Khan Yunis, a city in southern Gaza. However, the sweeping bombing campaign of the apartheid regime did not even spare the south and killed many displaced people, including the young and promising Palestinian poet and novelist. As the United Nations acknowledged, “there really is no safe place to go in Gaza.” The death toll in the besieged Gaza Strip has jumped above 8,000 since October 7, with majority of victims being children, women and elderly.

Abu Nada, who was a popular name in the literary circles of Palestine and had earned several awards for her writings, was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 1991. She traced her roots to a refugee family from Beit Jirja, a Palestinian village northeast of Gaza. The village was overrun by the Zionist forces during the Arab-Israeli war displacing the family in 1948. After that, her family was forced to relocate to the Gaza Strip.

As a young female Palestinian poet and writer, Abu Nada co-authored three poetry collections. In 2017, she won second place in the Sharjah Award for Creativity in the novel category for her debut novel “Uksujinlaysalil-mawta" (Oxygen isn't for the dead). In her novel, Abu Nada raised the issue of justice, bringing to light the harsh reality of Palestinians under occupation and comparing it with the Arab uprising of 2011. Her famous novel, ‘Oxygen isn't for the dead’, is in its fourth edition now.

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