GazaIslamic University, Gaza City
Strikes on Islamic University campus kill three guards and wound seven students
The campus was hit twice on Sunday, a day on which at least eight Palestinians were killed across the Strip. Most university buildings had already been destroyed earlier in the war.
An Israeli air strike on the Islamic University campus in Gaza City killed three security guards, hours after a drone strike there wounded seven female students.
A drone strike on the Islamic University in Gaza City on Sunday wounded seven female students with shrapnel, one of them seriously, Al Jazeera reported. A later air strike on the campus killed three security guards.
The university suspended academic and administrative work after the first attack. Al Jazeera's correspondent said most campus buildings were already in ruins before Sunday.
Elsewhere, two people were killed by shelling in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, according to Nasser Medical Complex, and further deaths were reported east of Deir al-Balah, on al-Rashid Street in the north and in the Sheikh Nasser area of Khan Younis.
The Israeli military did not comment on the campus strikes in the reports reviewed.
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of Gaza's higher education campuses destroyed or damaged since October 2023, per UNESCO
Source: Democracy Now!
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The war is ongoing. Israel claims there is a truce, but on the ground, what truce?Alaa Baroud, brother of a man killed in a strike on Sunday · Democracy Now!
We could hear the hissing sound of flying shrapnel everywhere.Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera correspondent, Gaza City · Al Jazeera via Yahoo News
Sources
- Al Jazeera (republished by Yahoo News), 25 Oct 2026
- Democracy Now!, 26 Oct 2026
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