Key facts
- Israeli forces conducted multiple strikes across Gaza, resulting in civilian and police casualties.
- Three Palestinian journalists were killed in an Israeli strike in central Gaza.
- At least a dozen people, including civilians and police officers, have been killed in Gaza over the past two days.
- The strikes occurred despite a months-old ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
- The Israeli military claimed some of the police officers killed were Hamas militants.
Israeli forces have conducted multiple strikes across Gaza, resulting in the deaths of at least three people, including journalists and a family of three. Reports indicate one person was killed in a strike on barracks near Nuseirat, another in a Gaza City apartment, and a third near a school in Beit Lahia.
Further casualties were reported, with three members of a family killed in central Gaza. In Jabaliya, an airstrike on a police station resulted in the deaths of a woman and six police officers, whom the Israeli military claimed were Hamas militants. A man died in a tent camp bombing in Khan Younis, and a child was killed by Israeli forces in Muwasi.
Three Palestinian journalists were killed in an Israeli strike in central Gaza while reportedly working for an Egyptian relief organization. Their car was hit in the al-Zahra area. The Israeli military stated it struck "several suspects who operated a drone affiliated with Hamas... in a manner that posed a threat" to its troops, and that the incident is under examination.
Overall, at least a dozen people have been killed in Gaza over the past two days, according to local health officials, despite a months-old ceasefire with Hamas. The Hamas-run health ministry reported that eight other people, including two children, were killed by Israeli artillery and gunfire across Gaza on Wednesday. Medics reported three deaths, including a 10-year-old boy, from Israeli tank fire in central Gaza, and two boys and a woman killed by Israeli gunfire in Khan Younis.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate called the strike on journalists a "dangerous escalation" and a "war crime," while the Committee to Protect Journalists expressed dismay and called for an investigation. The Israeli military stated its troops killed a "terrorist who crossed the Yellow Line and approached" them.