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SvennoJ on 07 July 2024
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Gaza death toll rises

At least 38,153 people have been killed and 87,828 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, the enclave’s Health Ministry says. Of those, 55 Palestinians were killed and 123 wounded in the past 24-hour reporting period, the ministry added.

Israel kills Hamas government official in Gaza City

Ehab al-Ghussein, the Hamas-appointed deputy labour minister of Gaza, has been killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City along with three others, according to the enclave’s Civil Defence.

It said earlier that its crews recovered four bodies and rescued many injured people after Israeli aircraft bombed a school building sheltering a large number of displaced people on the western outskirts of Gaza City.

Video footage verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking news agency Sanad showed dozens of displaced people fleeing the school after it ground floor was bombed. The dead and injured were transported to the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the city.

Caption translation: Killing of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor, Eng. Ehab al-Ghussein, in an Israeli raid on Gaza City




Qassam Brigades claims attack on Israeli tanks in Rafah and Gaza City

The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters targeted a Merkava 4 tank with an al-Yassin 105 rocket on Baghdad Street in eastern Gaza’s Shujayea neighbourhood, where intense battles have been reported.

The group also said on Telegram that another Merkava 4 tank was struck with a Shawaz antitank weapon in the south of the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood of Rafah city in southern Gaza.


Al-Quds Brigades claims attack on Israeli forces in Gaza City

The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group says it fired a barrage of mortars on Israeli soldiers and vehicles penetrating the Gaza City neighbourhood of Shujayea.

Separately, the group said on Telegram, its fighters engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli soldiers, using anti-armour and other appropriate weapons west of the city of Rafah.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army.