CAIRO: At least seven Palestinians, including a father and his 13-year-old son, were killed in Israeli strikes and gunfire across Gaza on Tuesday, according to local health officials.
Medics said Fadi Rajab and his son, Abubakr, died when an airstrike hit the roof of a shelter for displaced people in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood. Another person was killed in a separate strike near a school in the Daraj neighbourhood.
The Israeli military said it had targeted militants in both areas but provided no further details.
In southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, a man was reportedly killed by Israeli gunfire. Later, an airstrike struck a metal foundry in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood, killing three people, medics said. The military did not immediately comment on the incidents in Khan Younis or Sabra.
A US-brokered ceasefire reached last year envisaged Gaza’s eventual reconstruction, but negotiations remain stalled over Hamas’s disarmament and an Israeli troop withdrawal. Israel says Hamas is rebuilding its forces, while Hamas accuses Israel of undermining the truce.
Gaza health officials say at least 1,600 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the ceasefire agreement. Palestinian authorities put the total death toll from Israel’s offensive, launched after the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack in southern Israel, at more than 74,000. Israel says about 1,200 people were killed in that attack and four Israeli soldiers have died since the ceasefire.
