Men carry the body of one of several victims who were killed after a police station was hit by Israeli bombardment in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in the northern Gaza Strip, ahead of the funeral at a morgue at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday. AFP
"Eight martyrs were transferred to Al-Shifa hospital following an Israeli airstrike on a police station" in the western part of Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, said the agency.
Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, in the Palestinian territory's north, confirmed to AFP it had received the eight bodies.
In a statement condemning the air strike, Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which controls Gaza, said that the police station chief was among those killed in the airstrike.
Israel has repeatedly violated the ceasefire by expanding its occupation and maintaining its blockade of Gaza. Israel's ongoing attacks, refusal to withdraw from agreed areas, and continued restrictions have undermined progress toward the agreement's second phase, which was intended to transfer control from Hamas to a technocratic government and begin reconstruction of the war-ravaged territory.
At least 1,110 Palestinians have been killed since the truce took effect, according to the Palestinian health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations.
Overall, Israel's war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has killed at least 73,221 Palestinians and injured more than 173,686 others, according to Gaza's health ministry. Many of the dead and wounded are women and children.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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