CAIRO: Two Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring several others, officials from Gaza’s health ministry said.
An airstrike hit a police checkpoint in Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip early on Saturday, killing at least six, while a second airstrike hit Beit Lahiya, killing at least one, said the officials.
It was not immediately clear how many of those killed in the first strike were police members.
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The Israeli military said that the strike in Bureij had been carried out after members of the Hamas approached the yellow line demarcating the half of Gaza occupied by Israel. It did not immediately comment on the strike in Beit Lahiya.
Israel and Hamas reached a US-brokered deal last October that was meant to halt violence in the Palestinian territory.
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