GAZA CITY: Israeli strikes on separate locations in the Gaza Strip killed seven Palestinians on Tuesday, according to the territory’s civil defence rescue service and several hospitals.

Two men were killed in Israeli strikes in the town of Al-Zawaida and the Wadi Gaza area in the central Gaza Strip, according to Mahmoud Bassal, spokesperson of the civil defence, a rescue force operating under Hamas authority, and the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital.

An Israeli strike in the Jabalia al-Balad area in northern Gaza killed one person, according to Bassal and Al Shifa Hospital, which reported it had received another victim of a strike in the Zeitoun neighbourhood southeast of Gaza City.

The Israeli army said it had “eliminated a Hamas terrorist who had taken part in the abduction of Shani Louk during the Oct 7 massacre” in a strike in the Jabalia area, referring to an Israeli woman filmed in the attack lying face down in the back of a pick-up truck filled with gunmen. Her body was later repatriated.

In another Israeli strike, a man and his wife were killed and several others injured in a residential block near Al Shifa Hospital in the Al Rimal neighbourhood, west of Gaza City.

Nasser Hospital reported that it had also received the body of a teenager killed by Israeli gunfire south of Khan Younis in Gaza’s south.

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2026