Israeli attacks across Gaza on Tuesday have killed at least seven Palestinians as the Israeli military continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal.
Medics told Reuters that Palestinians were killed when they came out of their homes in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza as an Israeli-backed militia was attempting to storm the area. During the incursion, an Israeli drone fired a missile, killing five Palestinians in the camp.
According to Tareq Abu Azzoum, an Al Jazeera reporter based in Gaza City, the Israeli-armed group was able to withdraw from the area without being harmed. Israel backs several militias and gangs that are based on the IDF-occupied side of Gaza, which seek to overthrow Hamas.
The largest Israeli-backed group, known as the “Popular Forces,” is based in southern Gaza and started as an aid-looting gang led by Yasser Abu Shabab, a known smuggler who was killed late last year. Abu Shabab was replaced by Ghassan al-Duhaini, who was previously a member of the Army of Islam, or Jaysh al-Islam (not to be confused with a Syrian group with the same name), a Gaza-based Salafi jihadist group with a similar ideology to al-Qaeda that declared its allegiance to ISIS in 2015.
An Israeli strike in Gaza on Tuesday also targeted a vehicle in the southern city of Khan Younis, killing two Palestinians. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that a 15-year-old girl died after succumbing to wounds sustained a day earlier by an Israeli strike on a tent camp in southern Gaza, which also killed a six-year-old girl and a 31-year-old woman.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday that since the so-called ceasefire deal was signed in October 2025, Israeli forces have killed at least 906 Palestinians and wounded 2,747. “A number of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, as ambulance and civil defense crews have been unable to reach them so far,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.
