Gaza civil defence says 12 killed by Israeli forces

Gaza's civilian defence bureau said Israeli forces killed astatine slightest 12 persons connected Monday (July 7, 2025), including six successful a session lodging Palestinians displaced aft 21 months of war.

Israel has precocious expanded its subject operations successful the Gaza Strip, wherever the warfare has created dire humanitarian conditions for the Palestinian territory's colonisation of much than 2 million.

Civil defence spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said six persons were killed and 15 injured successful an Israeli aerial onslaught that deed the al-Rimal clinic, "which houses hundreds of displaced people, successful the Al-Rimal vicinity westbound of Gaza City."

AFP footage showed Palestinians, including groups of young children, combing done the bombed-out interior of the clinic, wherever mattresses laic alongside wood, metallic and factual breached isolated successful the blast.

"We were amazed by missiles and explosions wrong the building," eyewitness Salman Qudum said.

"We did not cognize wherever to spell due to the fact that of the particulate and destruction."

In the southbound of the territory, Bassal said 2 radical were killed and 20 others injured by Israeli forces' gunfire portion waiting for assistance adjacent a organisation tract tally by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

A U.S.- and Israel-backed group, the GHF took the pb successful nutrient organisation successful the territory successful precocious May, but its operations person had a chaotic rollout with repeated reports of assistance seekers killed adjacent its facilities.

Hundreds reported killed

The U.N. quality rights bureau said past week that much than 500 radical person been killed waiting to entree nutrient from GHF organisation points.

The wellness ministry successful Hamas-run Gaza connected Sunday (July 6, 2025) placed that toll higher, astatine 751 killed.

In Khan Yunis successful the south, Bassal reported 2 radical killed successful an aerial onslaught connected a location and different killed by Israeli gunfire.

An aerial onslaught connected a location successful Gaza City killed 1 and injured respective others, helium added.

The Israeli subject did not instantly respond to an AFP request for comment.

In a abstracted statement, it said it had struck "dozens of terrorists, weapons depots, reflection posts, subject buildings, and different panic infrastructures" implicit the past 24 hours.

Media restrictions successful Gaza and difficulties successful accessing galore areas mean AFP is incapable to independently verify the tolls and details provided by the civilian defence agency.

Hamas's October 7, 2023 onslaught connected Israel which triggered the warfare resulted successful the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based connected Israeli authoritative figures.

Out of 251 hostages seized during the attack, 49 are inactive held successful Gaza, including 27 the Israeli subject says are dead.

Israel's retaliatory run has killed much than 57,418 radical successful Gaza, besides mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory's wellness ministry. The United Nations considers its figures reliable.