Eight killed in strike on Jabalia police station, Gaza officials say
Gaza officials said an Israeli drone hit a police station in Jabalia, as other attacks were reported in Khan Younis.
By Lucas Ferreira · Science & Environment Writer
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An Israeli drone strike hit a police station in northern Gaza’s Jabalia camp on Tuesday, killing at least eight people, local officials told Al Jazeera and AFP. The deaths added to a day of reported casualties across Gaza, where Palestinian authorities say Israeli attacks have continued after a truce agreed last October.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said the attack took place in the afternoon in al-Faluja, an area in western Jabalia. Gaza’s Interior Ministry said at least six police personnel were among those killed, including the station’s director.
The ministry said a civilian also died and described the strike as a massacre targeting police officers and personnel. AFP, citing Gaza’s Palestinian Civil Defence, reported that eight people were killed in total, including a female officer, and that the bodies were taken to al-Shifa Hospital.
Mahmoud said the police based at the station were working to keep order in a marketplace area inside a displacement camp. Jabalia, in northern Gaza, has repeatedly been hit during Israel’s war in the enclave, according to Al Jazeera’s reporting.
Other deaths reported in Khan Younis
Earlier Tuesday, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that an Israeli air strike in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza killed one man and wounded three others, including a woman and a child. Wafa also said another man died from wounds he suffered in Israeli gunfire two days earlier in the same area.
Wafa reported that Israeli gunfire killed a child in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, bringing the day’s reported death toll in Gaza to 11. Mahmoud said the child was 10 years old and was hit by heavy machine-gun fire.
According to Mahmoud, relatives tried to take the boy to Nasser Hospital after he was critically wounded, but he died before they arrived. No additional details about the circumstances of the shooting were reported.
Health Ministry reports war toll
Gaza’s Health Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that at least 73,233 people have been killed and 173,707 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7, 2023. The ministry said at least 1,110 people have been killed since the October truce took effect.
Al Jazeera reported that deadly Israeli strikes have continued regularly in Gaza despite the ceasefire agreement. Israeli authorities did not provide a response in the reported accounts of Tuesday’s Jabalia strike.
This story draws on original reporting from Al Jazeera.