Six Palestinians were killed and more than 15 injured in Israeli airstrikes and gunfire across Gaza on Sunday evening, including four who died when a metal workshop in Gaza City’s southern Rimal neighborhood was bombed, according to the Ministry of Health and witnesses who spoke to Al Manassa.
The Israeli military targeted the metal workshop in southern Rimal with three consecutive missiles fired from a surveillance drone, giving no prior warning, killing four Palestinians and wounding others with shrapnel, according to an eyewitness.
The witness told Al Manassa that the strike occurred while the workshop owner and several workers were inside. The workshop was located in an area surrounded by displacement tents and homes, some of which had been partially destroyed during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
“Everything was normal, just like any other day. Then suddenly there were explosions, and the place was filled with shrapnel and blood,” the witness said, adding that the Israeli military had issued no warning or evacuation order before the first strike.
Israeli airstrike targets a blacksmith's workshop in the southern Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, July 12, 2026.After residents gathered and ambulances arrived to recover the dead and wounded, the witness said, an Israeli military officer called one of the neighbors and ordered the entire residential block evacuated ahead of another strike.
A second eyewitness told Al Manassa that the order caused panic among residents and displaced people, who fled what remained of their homes and tents fearing another attack. The threat warning remained in place for nearly three hours after the initial strike.
The witness added that Israeli warplanes later returned and struck the same workshop with four more missiles, causing extensive destruction and collapsing parts of nearby homes that had previously been damaged. “Due to the force of the explosions, shrapnel landed more than half a kilometer away from the target area,” the witness said.
Eight Palestinians sustained minor injuries from shrapnel scattering far beyond the strike site, according to a source with an Al Shifa Hospital ambulance crew who spoke to Al Manassa.
In a statement published on its WhatsApp channel, the Israeli military claimed it had destroyed “a Hamas weapons production site” in Gaza City, alleging that members of the movement had recently used the facility to manufacture components for weapons “in violation of the ceasefire agreement” in an effort to rebuild the group’s capabilities.
The Israeli military also claimed the strike took place while a number of Hamas members were inside the site, accusing them of “carrying out terrorist plans against IDF forces and the citizens of the State of Israel,” according to the statement.
One victim’s brother, who requested anonymity, flatly denied the Israeli military’s account. He told Al Manassa that his brother worked at the workshop, which housed a machine used to crush wartime plastic waste for recycling before its transportation elsewhere to be burned and processed into diesel and gasoline.
Three more attacks followed the workshop strike on Sunday. The first involved a surveillance drone missile hitting the roof of a house in Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, causing no casualties. The second struck a young man west of Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. According to a medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital who spoke to Al Manassa, both the young man’s legs had to be amputated as a result of the strike.
An eyewitness told Al Manassa that the Israeli military targeted the young man as he walked down the street, hitting him directly in the legs and leaving him bleeding on the ground.
“We could see the young man lying there wounded but still alive. People were afraid to approach him because they feared he would be targeted again,” the witness said.
Minutes later, passersby transported the wounded man to hospital in a tuk-tuk before ambulances arrived. The medical source said that as well as severe leg wounds, he had suffered multiple injuries across his body, calling his condition critical and saying he could die at any moment.
Israeli airstrike targets a blacksmith's workshop in the southern Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, July 12, 2026.In central Gaza, the same medical source said a young girl was declared dead on arrival at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah on Sunday after being shot in the head by the Israeli military.
An eyewitness told Al Manassa that the girl had been living with her family in a displacement tent on Salah Al-Din Street near the entrance to Al-Bureij refugee camp, and was shot while standing at the entrance to the tent.
The witness added that Israeli forces stationed east of Salah Al-Din Street, less than two kilometers away, periodically opened fire toward homes and tents. “We could be wounded or killed at any moment, because the army opens fire from time to time,” the witness said.
In Khan Younis in southern Gaza, a young man was killed inside his tent in the Al-Qadisiyah area west of the city on Sunday after it was struck by a surveillance drone missile. A journalist source told Al Manassa that the Israeli military targeted the tent, which was surrounded by other displacement tents, without prior warning. The victim’s body was so badly mutilated that he wasn’t identified until more than five hours after his death.
Separately, the Israeli military announced on Sunday that it had carried out a strike that killed Hassan Mustafa Zaher Al-Razina in northern Gaza, accusing him of belonging to Hamas and attempting to plant explosive devices near the Yellow Line separating Israeli military positions from Palestinian areas in the north of the Strip.
An eyewitness told Al Manassa that an Israeli surveillance drone first targeted Al-Razina’s car on Al-Rashid coastal road on Saturday evening before he managed to get out. The drone then chased him down and fired three missiles as he fled toward the beach, killing him instantly.
The Israeli military also announced in the same statement that it had targeted Mohammed Al-Fayoumi, who was killed in a surveillance drone strike west of Gaza City last Thursday evening, accusing him of planning attacks against its soldiers.
According to a Hamas source who spoke to Al Manassa, Al-Fayoumi worked as an aide to Hazem Qassem, the Hamas spokesperson in Gaza. The source said Qassem “is safe and was not in the vehicle when it was struck.”
Qassem later mourned his aide in a Facebook post, describing him as a brother and a fellow fighter. “He was the best of brothers and companions, always present with courage, sincerity, and integrity until God chose him as a martyr on the road to Jerusalem.” Qassem wrote. “He preceded us to God as a martyr on the path of the great martyrs, the men of Al-Aqsa Flood.”
