Relatives mourn as they carry the bodies of three young Palestinian brothers, killed in an Israeli strike, ahead of their funeral outside the al-Awda hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 5, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Khan Yunis, July 7 (RHC)-- At least five Palestinian civilians, including four children from the same family, have been killed in an Israeli drone strike on a tent sheltering displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian WAFA news agency reported on Sunday that four siblings, Yazan, 12, Amjad, 10, Muhannad, 7, and Mohammad Fahd Abu al-Khair, 6, were among the victims of the Israeli strike that hit their tent in Khan Yunis governorate. Several people were also wounded in the attack and taken to the Nasser hospital, the report added.
Over the weekend, Israel’s relentless bombardment killed at least 78 Palestinians across Gaza. The Israeli strikes targeted, among others, a UN-run school and a residential building in Gaza City, as well as near an aid distribution point operated by the controversial Israel-US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the southern Rafah governorate.
Over 700 Palestinians killed seeking aid in Gaza
Also on Saturday, the Gaza Health Ministry said at least 743 Palestinians were killed and more than 4,891 others injured over the past few weeks while seeking assistance at GHF’s sites.
Last week, more than NGOs in a joint statement demanded the immediate closure of the GHF, saying the scheme is forcing two million people into “overcrowded, militarized zones where they face daily gunfire and mass casualties.” “Today, Palestinians in Gaza face an impossible choice: starve or risk being shot while trying desperately to reach food to feed their families,” they added.
Israel sends team to Qatar for truce talks
Late on Saturday, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a negotiating team will travel to Qatar on Sunday for talks on a proposal that would involve a 60-day Gaza ceasefire.
It, however, noted that the changes the Palestinian Hamas resistance group is requesting to make to the Qatari proposal “are unacceptable to Israel.” The announcement followed Hamas's statement that it had provided a “positive” response to the truce proposal and was prepared to enter into talks on implementing the deal.
Israel unleashed its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after Hamas carried out its historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
The Tel Aviv regime has so far failed to achieve its declared objectives of eliminating Hamas and freeing captives in Gaza, despite killing 57,338 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 135,957 others.
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