Israeli fire kills 7 in Gaza

CAIRO:

Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least seven Palestinians, including a child, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the territory's health officials said.

Medics said an Israeli airstrike killed a man and wounded two children in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The Israeli military told Reuters they had targeted a Hamas militant.

Another Israeli airstrike hit near a tent encampment housing displaced families in western Gaza City, killing one person and wounding five others, medics said, while a third airstrike in Khan Younis killed one person and wounded three others.

The Israeli military said both of those strikes had also targeted militants.

The Popular Resistance Committees, a militant group that has long carried out armed attacks against Israel, said one of the two Israeli strikes in Khan Younis had killed a senior leader of the group, Waheed Abu Salem. Later on Tuesday, one Palestinian was killed and nine others were wounded by Israeli gunfire in an area of Rafah in the south of Gaza, medics and witnesses said