At least seven Palestinians were killed on Sunday in a wave of Israeli military attacks across the Gaza Strip, with strikes hitting residential areas, infrastructure, and an educational institution in Gaza City.
The deadliest single incident occurred at the Islamic University campus in Gaza City, where an Israeli air strike killed three security guards. The attack marked the second time the institution was struck within a matter of hours. Earlier in the day, a drone strike on the same campus injured seven female students from flying shrapnel, with one victim sustaining serious injuries and requiring an urgent transfer to a nearby field hospital.
The university campus had already sustained heavy damage during previous military operations, leaving only a couple of structures partially standing before Sunday’s bombardments. The Popular Resistance Committees strongly condemned the targeting of the educational facility, calling on international mediators and guarantors to intervene and halt the ongoing violations.
According to data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, nearly 95 percent of higher education facilities across the Gaza Strip have been destroyed or damaged since the conflict began in October 2023.
Additional casualties were reported across other regions of the enclave. In southern Gaza, medical personnel at the Nasser Medical Complex confirmed that two people were killed and several others, including a child, were wounded by Israeli shelling in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis.
Further north and central, separate incidents claimed more lives. An Israeli drone strike east of Deir el-Balah resulted in one fatality. Meanwhile, an attack along al-Rashid Street near Hamad Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip left one person dead and several others wounded, according to reports from the official Palestinian Wafa news agency.
The latest violence unfolds against a backdrop of worsening humanitarian conditions and broader territorial control by Israeli forces. Military restrictions and the continued closure of border crossings have deepened an escalating food crisis across the enclave, exacerbated by a decline in international aid funding. Nearly two-thirds of the Gaza Strip is currently under direct Israeli military control or subject to strict access restrictions.
Figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health indicate that at least 1,551 people have been killed and 5,573 others injured since a nominal ceasefire began in October 2025. These figures bring the cumulative death toll since October 2023 to 74,544 fatalities, with at least 175,692 individuals reported wounded.
