An Israeli drone targeted a police post in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least eight people, including six police officers and one civilian, according to the Gaza Interior Ministry.
The attack took place in the al-Faluja neighborhood, west of Jabalia. Among the victims were the station chief and several of his officers, the Interior Ministry stated, describing the strike as a "horrific massacre against police officers and members." The Palestinian Civil Defense confirmed the death toll of eight, including one female officer, and that the bodies had been transferred to al-Shifa Hospital.
The targeted post was located in a market area within a camp for displaced persons. The officers working there were tasked with maintaining a minimum level of order and organization in this particularly densely populated area.
This strike is part of a near-daily series of Israeli attacks in Gaza, which continue despite the ceasefire agreed upon last October. On the same day, in the Khan Younis area in the south of the territory, an airstrike killed one man and wounded three others, including a child and a woman, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. A second man died from gunshot wounds sustained two days earlier in the same area.
A ten-year-old child was also killed by heavy machine-gun fire in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis. Hit and critically wounded, he died before his relatives could get him to Nasser Hospital. The total death toll for the day in the enclave has risen to eleven.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli war on Gaza has claimed at least 73,233 lives and injured 173,707 people, according to a Health Ministry tally released Tuesday. At least 1,110 of these victims have been killed since the October truce took effect.
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