Israel kills 7 Palestinians in Gaza strikes despite ceasefire

Seven Palestinians were killed and dozens of others wounded in separate Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to local and medical sources. ​​​The attacks come amid daily Israeli violations of a ceasefire agreement that took effect in October 2025. At least four government employees were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted an Economy Ministry post in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the Gaza government media office said.

It added that 30 others were wounded in the attack, including six in critical condition. The government media office described the attack on the post as “a new crime and a horrific massacre” targeting civilian public sector employees. It said targeting government teams and civilian public employees was part of an “organized campaign by Israel to undermine government institutions and push the territory toward chaos and lawlessness.” Separately, two Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli drone strike targeting a civilian vehicle near the entrance to the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, a medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said.

The source said the bodies of two Palestinians and several wounded people were brought to the hospital after the strike on Salah al-Din Street. In the latest attack, another Palestinian was killed in an Israeli strike targeting a gathering of civilians near the Halawa displacement camp east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, medical sources told Anadolu. An Israeli strike also targeted a home in the Safatawi neighborhood north of Gaza City after an evacuation warning was issued for an entire residential block.

No casualties were immediately reported. Earlier Thursday, an Israeli strike targeted a home in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, without causing casualties, according to local sources. Israeli military vehicles opened heavy fire toward homes and tents sheltering displaced people in areas northeast of Khan Younis in southern Gaza and east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, alongside intense artillery shelling, according to local sources.

Israeli artillery also shelled northeastern areas of Gaza City, while military vehicles fired toward tents sheltering displaced people in the Halawa camp area east of Jabalia in northern Gaza, the sources said. Israeli violations of the agreement as of Wednesday had killed 1,568 Palestinians and wounded 5,648 others, according to Palestinian figures. Since October 2023, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians and wounded over 175,000, while causing widespread destruction affecting about 90% of the enclave’s civilian infrastructure.