Mother and infant reported killed as Israeli strikes continue across Gaza

Sources

• Middle East Eye, Dr Nika Soon-Shiong said she was removed from the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists after challenging a decision she feared would see Palestinians broadly excluded from journalist death tolls (2 July 2026, 22:53 UTC)
• Middle East Eye, With Ashqar's death, the Palestinian Football Association said the number of Palestinian sports figures killed since the start of Israel's war on Gaza has risen to 1,009, including 567 members of the Palestinian football community (2 July 2026, 22:44 UTC)
• Telegram / JahanTasnim, Israeli warships shelled the shores of Gaza City, Palestinian sources reported (2 July 2026, 21:21 UTC)
• Telegram / IR Iran Military, Palestinians goalkeeper Salim Al-Ashqar has been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza (2 July 2026, 21:15 UTC)
• Telegram / PressTV, Israeli forces carry out a massive airstrike targeting the town of Seddiqin in southern Lebanon (2 July 2026, 23:11 UTC)
• Telegram / Wfwitness, Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon outside the security zone (2 July 2026, 22:29 UTC)
• Telegram / PressTV, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei says the US-led regional security meeting is nothing but a deceitful show (2 July 2026, 23:30 UTC)

Desk note: Monexus has run the day's reports as filed by the three channels that carried the story, without independent corroboration from the major wire agencies, and has flagged the corroboration gap explicitly. Where Israeli or Western-wire reporting becomes available later in the day, this article will be updated with a dated addendum rather than silently overwritten.