Seven killed in Gaza on Tuesday, including a 13-year-old boy, Palestinian reports say

Seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to Palestinian emergency services cited by the Times of Israel. Six of the deaths came in three separate strikes inside Gaza City, and a seventh person was killed by gunfire near Khan Yunis in the south of the territory. The Times of Israel reported, citing the Hamas-run Civil Defense agency, that one of those killed was a 13-year-old boy, who died alongside his father.

The Hebrew-language Telegram channel Abu Ali Express, relaying Palestinian reports, described the three Gaza City strikes as attacks by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) drones and named several of the dead. Contacted by the Times of Israel, the Israeli military said it had "struck terror operatives." The military's full response, and any detail on who it says was targeted at each location, was not included in the material available to us.

The three strikes in Gaza City

The first strike hit the Zeitoun neighbourhood. Abu Ali Express reported that a drone struck the roof of the al-Awqaf centre there, killing Fadi Hajjaj and his son. The Times of Israel, citing Civil Defense, likewise placed the deaths of a father and his son in Zeitoun and gave the boy's age as 13.

The second strike targeted a tent. According to Abu Ali Express, it was in the Daraj neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City, and it killed one man, named as Alaa Ghabayen, and seriously wounded two other people. The Times of Israel described the tent as a shelter for displaced people but did not name the neighbourhood.

The third strike was the deadliest. Abu Ali Express said a drone hit a lathe workshop on al-Maghribi Street, killing three men, named as Ahmed Dalloul, Mahmoud Abd al-Malik and Ali Abu Asi, and wounding 7 others. The Times of Israel, citing Civil Defense, put the strike in the Sabra neighbourhood and said the site was what the agency called a metal workshop. The two accounts agree on the number killed but describe the location differently: one by street name, the other by neighbourhood. The reports do not make clear whether these refer to the same spot.

The death near Khan Yunis

Both reports say a seventh person was killed in the south of the Strip. Abu Ali Express said the death was caused by machine-gun fire in the Khan Yunis area. The Times of Israel said the Civil Defense agency told the AFP news agency that the person was killed by Israeli fire near Khan Yunis, and added that the hospitals receiving the bodies confirmed the reports of the deaths.

Who is reporting, and how

The casualty figures and names in both reports originate with Palestinian sources rather than with the Israeli military. The Times of Israel attributes its figures to the Civil Defense agency in Gaza, which it describes as run by Hamas, the Islamist movement that governs the Strip. Civil Defense is the emergency and rescue service that typically responds to strike sites and reports casualties. Abu Ali Express is a Hebrew-language channel on the Telegram messaging app that follows and relays reporting from Arabic-language and Palestinian outlets for an Israeli audience; its post attributes its account to Palestinian reports.

The Hebrew term used in its post, kattam, is the Israeli acronym for an unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone. The Times of Israel's report refers more generally to Israeli strikes and does not specify the type of aircraft or munition.

Geography

Gaza City is the largest urban area in the Gaza Strip and lies in its north. Zeitoun, Daraj and Sabra are neighbourhoods of the city. Khan Yunis is a city in the southern part of the Strip. A photograph published with the Times of Israel report showed streets in Gaza City lined with buildings destroyed during the Israel-Hamas war, taken on November 8, 2026.

What the reports do not say

• The Israeli military has not, in the material available, identified who it says it targeted at any of the four locations or offered evidence for its statement.
• Neither report independently confirms the casualty figures beyond the Palestinian agency and the hospitals cited.
• The condition of the wounded, including the two seriously hurt in the tent strike and the 7 hurt at the workshop, has not been updated.
• Abu Ali Express does not give the age of Fadi Hajjaj's son; the age of 13 comes from the Civil Defense account carried by the Times of Israel.