Israel killed at least eight Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, among them three employees of the Islamic University in Gaza City, who died when Israel bombed the campus for the second time in a few hours while students were there for classes. An eight-year-old girl, Fatima Hisham al-Bayouk, died the same day of wounds from Israeli gunfire the evening before.
Israel first hit the campus with a drone strike on a gathering of students, wounding at least five, some of them critically, the university said. Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud, who was on the campus, said seven female students were hit by shrapnel and that his team had greeted three of the university's staff moments before the second strike killed them. Al Shifa hospital received the three bodies and treated eight wounded students, and two university sources said the dead were administrative staff. The university has suspended all teaching and administration at its Gaza City campus, where families whose homes Israel destroyed have been sheltering.
The Israeli army said it had been "targeting a terrorist from Hamas' military wing" and that it "diverted" the munition after it spotted "uninvolved individuals", and that the strike is under review. It named no target and did not say whether it meant to kill the three employees.
Israeli shelling killed two people in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, and wounded several others, including a child, according to Nasser Medical Complex. An Israeli drone killed Hamdan Salman Abu Amra, 33, a displaced man, in the al-Mazra'a area east of Deir al-Balah, Palestinian Civil Defence said. Israel killed one more person and wounded several near Hamad Hospital on al-Rashid Street in the north of the Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Israeli troops also blew up homes in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City at dawn, shelled Bureij and the east of Khan Younis, fired on displaced families' tents in Jabalia and Nuseirat, and fired on the coast from gunboats. Gaza's Education Ministry said Israel has killed 10 students and educators in the past six days, Fatima among them, and that 95 per cent of the buildings of Gaza's universities and colleges have been damaged. Most of the Islamic University's buildings were already in ruins before Sunday.
Israel has killed 1,551 Palestinians and wounded 5,573 since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025, Gaza's Health Ministry said on Sunday, up from 1,460 when we reported the count two weeks ago. Its total since October 2023 stands at 74,544 killed and 175,692 wounded. The ministry also received the body of Ibrahim Amin Hasan Abu Gharaba, 33, who it says died in Israeli custody two weeks after Israeli forces abducted him. The full toll of the genocide is on our Gaza record.
The Israeli army says it will keep operating against "threats" under the ceasefire, and on Sunday it named two men it killed last week as Hamas and Islamic Jihad financiers. Israel now controls almost two-thirds of Gaza, the World Food Programme cut food aid to half a million people last week for lack of funding, and Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that he is working hard to find countries to take Gaza's population.
