Gazan Boy Dies of Injuries Sustained in 2014 Zionist Airstrike

Date: 03 November 2018 - 21:47

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GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – A Gazan teenage boy has died more than four years after being injured in an aerial attack by the Zionist regime that targeted his family home in the besieged Gaza Strip back.
Al-Wafaa Hospital for Rehabilitation and Specialized Surgery announced that 14-year-old Muhammad al-Rifi died on Saturday morning at the hospital, where he had been taken for medical treatment.
The hospital pointed out that Rifi was suffering from a critical injury in his cervical vertebrae, which had left him quadriplegic and on ventilators for over four years.
The Gazan teenager was critically injured in an airstrike by the Zionist regime on his family home in the eastern al-Tuffah neighborhood of the Gaza City during the onslaught by the occupying regime against the Gaza Strip in 2014.
His father, brother and four of his cousins were killed in that aerial assault.
In early July 2014, the regime waged a war on the Gaza Strip. The 50-day military aggression, which ended on August 26, 2014, killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children. Over 11,100 others – including 3,374 children, 2,088 women and 410 elderly people – were also wounded in the war.
The Gaza Strip has been under siege by the regime since June 2007. The blockade has caused a decline in the standards of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.
Tensions have been running high near the fence separating the Gaza Strip from the occupied territories ever since anti-occupation protest rallies began in the coastal enclave on March 30. At least 214 Palestinians have been killed by Zionist troops. Over 22,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries.
The Gaza clashes reached their peak on May 14, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day (Day of Catastrophe), which coincided this year with the U.S. embassy relocation from Tel Aviv to occupied East al-Quds.
On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution, sponsored by Turkey and Algeria, condemning the regime for Palestinian civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.

This undated picture shows Palestinian teenager Muhammad al-Rifi at al-Wafaa Hospital for Rehabilitation and Specialized Surgery in Gaza City.