Israeli fire kills seven, including a father and son, in Gaza

Israeli fire kills seven, including a father and son, in Gaza

Israeli forces killed at least seven Palestinians, including a father and his 13-year-old son, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local health officials said.

Medics said Fadi Rajab and his son Abubakr were killed in an air strike that hit the roof of a displacement shelter in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City. A third Palestinian was killed in an Israeli air strike near a school in Gaza City's Daraj neighbourhood, health officials added.

In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Israeli gunfire killed a man, medics said.

Later on Tuesday, an Israeli air strike hit a metal foundry in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, killing three people, medics said, taking the day's death toll to at least seven.