An eight-year-old Palestinian girl, whose age was confirmed by al-Shifa hospital, was killed alongside her father in an Israeli strike on Gaza City on Sunday, hours after she attended the first day of the new school year.
Wafaa Yousef Nabil Akila and her father, Youssef Nabil Rabah Akila, were travelling in a vehicle in western Gaza City when an Israeli drone near the Hamid intersection struck the car.
The attack also wounded six other Palestinians, according to medical officials at al-Shifa hospital.
Photographs shared before the strike showed Wafaa smiling in a blue school uniform and giving a thumbs-up on her first day back at school.
Images from the aftermath showed her schoolbooks and supplies scattered across the charred wreckage of the vehicle.
“This is all that’s left, world,” one man said in the footage. “What truce are you talking about?”
“There has been no ceasefire,” another said. “Every day there are massacres. Every day there is killing. Every day children are dying.”
“Enough of this abandonment.”