Israeli Strikes And Gunfire Kill At Least Seven Palestinians In Gaza

Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to the territory's health officials, with medics reporting an Israeli airstrike killed a man and wounded two children in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

“By Palestine Media Agency, July 7, 2026”

Agence Media Palestine

The Israeli military told Reuters it had targeted a Hamas militant, while another Israeli airstrike hit near a tent encampment housing displaced families in western Gaza City, killing one person and wounding five others, medics said.

Agence Media Palestine

In Khan Younis, a third airstrike killed one person and wounded three others, and the Popular Resistance Committees said one of the two Israeli strikes in Khan Younis killed a senior leader of the group, Waheed Abu Salem.

Later on Tuesday, one Palestinian was killed and nine others were wounded by Israeli gunfire in an area of Rafah in the south of Gaza, medics and witnesses said.

The Daily Sabah account also described Israeli strikes and gunfire killing at least six Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, citing the same Mawasi Khan Younis airstrike that killed one man and wounded two children.

The Daily Sabah report said cease-fire violations persisted after a U.S.-mediated cease-fire with Hamas was reached last October, with Israel repeatedly carrying out strikes in Gaza saying it is targeting Hamas members who threaten its forces or who took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

Nikolay Mladenov, U.S. President Donald Trump's appointed Board of Peace envoy to Gaza, said both sides have violated the agreement, while Hamas accused Israel of violating the cease-fire.

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The Express Tribune account also tied the reported strikes to militant targeting, saying the Israeli military told Reuters they had targeted a Hamas militant.

In the same Tuesday reporting, the Popular Resistance Committees said one of the two Israeli strikes in Khan Younis killed a senior leader of the group, Waheed Abu Salem.

Daily Sabah further stated that since the cease-fire took effect eight months ago, more than 1,070 Palestinians, many of them civilians, and four Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza, according to figures released by the two sides.

Beyond the Tuesday incidents, the Daily Sabah report said Israeli troops control more than 60% of Gaza, patrolling what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describes as a buffer zone to deter Hamas attacks, and Netanyahu says Israel will not withdraw from the territory.

It also said Israel's air and ground campaign has displaced nearly the territory's entire population of about 2 million people, most of whom now live in tents or damaged buildings along a narrow coastal strip governed by Hamas.

The Daily Sabah report added that Gaza's Health Ministry says more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since then, while Hamas does not disclose the number of its members killed.

In a separate account, Agence Media Palestine said this week marked the 1,000th day since the start of the Israeli genocidal war and that 300 patients have died while waiting for medical evacuation since the start of the ceasefire.

Agence Media Palestine also quoted a demonstrator at Al-Shifa Hospital asking, "What is a child to blame? How are we, cancer patients, supposed to die simply because we are Palestinians?"