Israeli attack on northern Gaza kills eight | Gaza News

Gaza’s Interior Ministry has condemned the ‘horrific killings’ which killed a station chief, other police officers and civilians.

Israeli airstrikes have targeted police in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza, killing at least eight people, according to government officials.

The attack took place on Tuesday afternoon in al-Faluja west of Jabalia, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza City.

Among those killed were at least six police officers, including the station chief, according to the Gaza Interior Ministry.

A civilian was also killed, the ministry said. It described the attack as a “brutal killing of police officers and police officers”.

AFP quoted the Palestinian security group in Gaza as saying that eight people were killed in the attack, including a female police officer, and that their bodies were transferred to al-Shifa hospital.

“Their job was to maintain some kind of law and order in what is known as the market in the middle of the refugee camp,” Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud said.

The Jabalia attack is the latest in a series of recent Israeli attacks on Gaza it has always gone on even a “ceasefire” was agreed last October.

Israeli shooting kills 10-year-old boy

Earlier today, an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip in Khan Younis killed one person and wounded three others, including a child and a woman, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported. Separately, a man died of wounds from Israeli fire two days earlier in the same area, Wafa said.

Meanwhile, an Israeli gun killed a child in the district of Khan Younis in al-Mawasi, Wafa said, bringing the death toll to 11 today.

The child – 10 years old – was shot with a large gun and died before his relatives rushed him to the hospital, Mahmoud said.

“He was badly injured and bleeding,” Mahmoud said.

“When his relatives picked him up and took him to Nasser Hospital, he was already dead.

Israel’s war in Gaza since October 7, 2023 has killed at least 73,233 people and injured 173,707, according to the Ministry of Health released earlier on Tuesday. About 1,110 of those affected have been killed since the October accord began, the ministry said.