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Israeli strikes kill seven in Gaza as Red Cross starts getting detainee lists again
Hospitals reported deaths in Gaza City, Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah on Sunday. Separately, Israel has resumed sharing the names of Palestinians it holds, though prison visits have not restarted.
Key points
- Israeli strikes killed seven people across Gaza on Sunday, hospital officials said.
- Gaza's health ministry says more than 1,500 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire.
- The ICRC is receiving detainee lists again, but Israel has not yet allowed prison visits.
Israeli strikes killed seven Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, hospital officials said, a year into a ceasefire that has not stopped the killing.
Two strikes in Gaza City killed four people. Two brothers were killed in Khan Younis in the south and one person in Deir al-Balah, in the centre of the territory. The deaths were confirmed by officials at Shifa, Hamad, Nasser and Al-Aqsa hospitals and at an American field hospital. The Israeli military did not immediately comment.
Gaza’s health ministry, which is run by Hamas, says more than 1,500 Palestinians have now been killed since the ceasefire took effect. It does not separate civilians from fighters but says women and children make up nearly half of the dead.
Names, but no visits
In a separate development, the International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed it has started receiving lists of Palestinian detainees from Israel again. Israel stopped sharing the lists, and stopped letting the ICRC visit detainees, after the Hamas-led attack of 7 October 2023. Israel’s Supreme Court ordered the government earlier this year to resume both.
ICRC spokesperson Gilad Grossman said Israel had not yet allowed prison visits to restart, but the organisation hoped they would resume soon. Israel detained thousands of Palestinians after 7 October. Some were freed under last year’s ceasefire deal, but about 9,000 remain in prison or detention, many in harsh conditions.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces pressed on with a raid in Hebron, an operation that has been reported to have displaced thousands of people as movement restrictions tighten.