Seven Gazans Killed in Israeli Strikes; Shelling Continues in Lebanon, Syria
GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) --
Israeli strikes killed at least seven Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, including three administrative staff at the Islamic University in Gaza City, while Israeli forces continued artillery shelling and demolitions across southern Lebanon and conducted an incursion in southern Syria’s Quneitra countryside.
In Gaza, an Israeli drone strike hit the Islamic University campus in Gaza City, killing three administrative staff identified as Sami Baroud, Ashraf Dahlan and Shadi Abu Ataya, and wounding eight others, according to Al-Shifa Hospital and university sources.
Gaza’s education ministry condemned the strike, noting that 95 percent of academic buildings had been damaged and that ten students and educators had been killed over the preceding six days.
Separate strikes killed one person in Khan Younis’s Al-Mawasi area, one in Deir al-Balah, and one near Hamad Hospital northwest of Gaza City, with additional injuries reported along Al-Rashid Street.
Gaza’s health ministry reported that since the October 2025 ceasefire, 1,551 Palestinians have been killed and 5,573 injured, with the overall toll since October 2023 reaching 74,544 dead and 175,692 wounded.
In Lebanon, Israeli forces continued terrorist attacks across the south on Sunday. A drone strike hit the al-Hariq neighborhood in Kfar Tibnit, while warplanes struck Wadi Hujeir in the Marjayoun district.
Artillery targeted the outskirts of Braasheet and Majdal Zoun, and Israeli forces carried out a powerful explosion on the outskirts of Aitaroun.
Two Merkava tanks were positioned on the outskirts of Aita al-Jabal, firing machine guns toward the town while residents picked olives nearby, with no injuries reported.
A tank also fired shells at Haddatha amid machine-gun sweeps. Overnight, Israeli forces carried out large-scale explosions in Houla, Khiam and Talousa.
In Syria, an Israeli drone flew over Quneitra Governorate on Sunday while heavy gunfire was directed from the newly established “Western Tal al-Ahmar” base toward agricultural lands near the town of Kodna.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Israeli forces carried out land-clearing operations in the Al-Shahar forest area near Jubata al-Khashab during an incursion into the northern Quneitra countryside, raising concerns over environmental impact.