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Eight-Year-Old Palestinian Girl Killed with Father on First Day of School
The strike wounded six others and came hours after Wafaa attended her first day back at school, according to al-Shifa hospital officials.
- On Sunday, an Israeli strike near the Hamid intersection in western Gaza City killed eight-year-old Wafaa Akila and her 36-year-old father, Youssef Nabil Rabah Akila, while they traveled in a vehicle.
- The Israeli military stated the attack targeted a "Hamas militant," later identifying Youssef Akila as a company commander in the Nukhba force accused of planning attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians.
- Wafaa Akila had just begun the new school year, with photographs showing her smiling in a blue school uniform hours before the strike scattered her schoolbooks across the charred vehicle wreckage.
- Medical officials at Shifa Hospital reported the strike wounded six other Palestinians; other violence struck the Gaza Strip on the same day despite a US-backed ceasefire in effect since October 2025.
- Much of Gaza's education infrastructure remains destroyed or damaged, forcing thousands of Palestinian children to study in makeshift classrooms and tents as formal schooling attempts to resume later in September.
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The nine-year-old Palestinian girl Wafiq Yusuf Akelah did not know that her return to school would be only hours, and that her new bag and notebooks, which she carried on the first day of the school year, would turn into the last link to a childhood dream that ended with Israeli shelling.
A nine-year-old girl started her school year in Gaza with her purse and her little dreams, before the Israeli bombing killed her with her father after the end of her first day.
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza City claimed the lives of Youssef Akila and his eight-year-old daughter Wafaa on Sunday. The vehicle in which the duo...
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