Israeli Attacks Kill At Least Six Palestinians Across Gaza Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire

Israeli attacks and gunfire across Gaza killed at least six people as violence persisted despite a United States-brokered “ceasefire,” Gaza’s Civil Defence agency and health officials said on Thursday.

“2 Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on southern Gaza Strip residence - Middle East - Anadolu Agency - Published Date: 01:25 PM 09 July 2026 Two Palestinians were killed Thursday in an Israeli drone strike on a home west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, medical sources said”

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Al Jazeera reported that Gaza’s hospitals confirmed receiving the bodies of six people killed in the attacks, including two killed when an Israeli drone hit the courtyard of a home in the Batn as-Sameen area of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, with the bodies taken to Nasser Hospital.

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The Al Jazeera account also said another Israeli strike hit a busy street of Gaza City, killing one person and injuring several others on Thursday, while Gaza’s Ministry of Health said at least eight people had been killed in 24 hours with 17 others injured.

In parallel, Middle East Monitor said at least 12 Palestinians were killed and 20 others injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours amid ongoing violation of a ceasefire in effect since last October, and it cited the Health Ministry saying eight people were killed and 17 others injured.

Al Jazeera said two of the victims were killed when an Israeli drone hit the courtyard of a home in the Batn as-Sameen area of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, and it reported that Gaza’s Civil Defence and health officials described the killings as continuing despite the ceasefire.

Middle East Monitor said the Health Ministry reported that a number of victims remain trapped under the rubble and on roads, as ambulance and civil defense teams are unable to reach them.

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Al Jazeera also reported that on Wednesday an Israeli strike on a humanitarian vehicle transporting goods from the Karem Abu Salem (known as Kerem Shalom to Israelis) crossing to a warehouse in Gaza killed one person, and it identified the driver as Ahmad Nasser Saleem.

In response to that strike, Al Jazeera quoted World Central Kitchen saying, “Humanitarian aid deliveries should never be a target,” and added that it expected a full accounting by Israel of the attack.

Al Jazeera said that since Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire on October 10, 2025, Israel continued carrying out air strikes inside Gaza, killing at least 1,092 Palestinians and wounding more than 3,507 during the “ceasefire,” according to the Health Ministry.

Al Jazeera further reported that since October 2023, the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, more than 73,118 Palestinians have been killed, and it said Gaza’s Government Media Office last week claimed Israeli forces control about 80 percent of the Strip.

On the humanitarian front, Al Jazeera said Gaza’s laboratories and blood banks are on the verge of a complete shutdown due to a crippling shortage of crucial supplies, with Sahar Ghanem saying shortages of lab materials have reached 87 percent and essential items needed for diagnostic tests are running at a 74-percent deficit.

Al Jazeera also said Hamas chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya arrived in Cairo for more ceasefire talks, which have so far been at a deadlock, and it noted that the two parties failed to implement the second, more sensitive, phase of the “ceasefire” dealing with Hamas’s disarmament and the Israeli military’s withdrawal from Gaza.