Israeli fire kills four people in Gaza, medics say

<article data-history-node-id="441576" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-fire-kills-four-people-gaza-medics-say" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-fire-kills-four-people-gaza-medics-say" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli fire kills four people in Gaza, medics say</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli fire killed at least four&nbsp;Palestinians in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza health officials said.</p> <p>Medics said at least one person was killed and four were wounded when an&nbsp;Israeli air strike hit a vehicle east of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. The blast left the vehicle a mangled skeleton.</p> <p>Another&nbsp;strike earlier in the day killed one person and wounded another in the nearby Zawayda town, they added. Later on Tuesday, an Israeli air strike killed one person at a tent encampment in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave.</p> <p>Israeli gunfire&nbsp;also killed&nbsp;one man in northwest Khan Younis,&nbsp;medics said, taking Tuesday's death toll to at least four.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Relative of a Palestinian who was killed in an Israeli strike, sits next to his body at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip 2 June 2026. REUTERS" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="36272192-8556-46c3-aa08-1d385e37f5af" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Relative%20of%20a%20Palestinian%20who%20was%20killed%20in%20an%20Israeli%20strike%2C%20sits%20next%20to%20his%20body%20at%20Al-Aqsa%20Martyrs%20Hospital%20in%20Deir%20al-Balah%2C%20in%20the%20central%20Gaza%20Strip%202%20June%202026.%20REUTERS%20%281%29.jpg" width="5500" height="3667" alt="Relative of a Palestinian who was killed in an Israeli strike, sits next to his body at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip 2 June 2026. REUTERS" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A relative of a Palestinian who was killed in an Israeli strike sits next to his body at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on 2 June 2026 (Mahmoud Issa/Reuters)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>