Israeli strikes kill family of three, five police officers in central Gaza

Israeli airstrikes killed at least ten Palestinians in central Gaza early Sunday, as the occupying regime continues to target residential areas and public facilities across the besieged territory.

A family of three was killed early on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike targeting their apartment in central Gaza, while at 7 a.m., at least seven people, including a child and five police officers, were killed in a strike on a police station.

A father, mother, and their one-year-old son from the Abu Mlouh family were killed at dawn when their home in the Nuseirat refugee camp was targeted, local sources reported.

The Israeli armed forces also struck a house in Deir al-Balah overnight, causing extensive destruction.

The Ministry of Interior and National Security in Gaza said that Israel is targeting police officers while they are “performing their duties of monitoring markets and maintaining security and public order.”

The ministry also noted that the repeated Israeli attacks targeting police facilities and striking police officers and personnel “constitute a war crime and a blatant violation of international humanitarian law, as police facilities are civilian institutions safeguarded under international law and must not be targeted.”

Hamas: Israeli strike on police site intended to create ‘security vacuum’ in Gaza

Hamas condemns Israel’s strike on police stations as an attempt to create a security vacuum in Gaza.

“The systematic targeting of civilian police personnel is an extension of the war of extermination [after] the Israeli war machine failed to subdue our people and their resistance, or force them to surrender,” Hamas said in a statement released on Sunday.

At least 42 members of the Palestinian police in Gaza have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the ceasefire in October 2024.

There has been a significant increase in Israeli attacks in the war-torn Strip in recent weeks despite the ceasefire.

Israel has violated the ceasefire more than 2,800 times, killing hundreds and blocking the entry of much-needed aid.

Israeli armed forces have killed more than 870 Palestinians since the ceasefire, including over 300 children, women, and the elderly.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, condemned Israel’s recent attacks in the Gaza Strip, saying that “the unrelenting pattern of killings” reflects Israel’s “sweeping impunity.”

“Palestinians are still being killed and injured in what is left of their homes, shelters, and tents of displaced families, on the streets, in vehicles, at a medical facility, and in a classroom,” Turk said.

Since Israel launched its genocidal assault on Gaza on October 7, 2023, it has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians and wounded at least 172,000 others, most of them children and women.

Furthermore, the Israeli regime has completely destroyed Gaza’s civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, schools, sports facilities, power plants, water reservoirs, and residential areas.

As a result, the people of Gaza have become refugees in the besieged territory, completely dependent on foreign aid, which rarely enters the enclave due to Israeli blockades.

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