Gaza health officials say 10 killed in Israeli attacks

GAZA CITY: Gaza’s civil defence service and hospitals said Israeli attacks killed at least 10 people on Sunday, in the latest episodes of violence despite a months-old truce.

Israel and Hamas have traded accusations of near-daily ceasefire violations, keeping the Gaza Strip gripped by bloodshed as progress on permanently ending the war remains stalled.

A strike on a vehicle near the Al-Buraq school in western Gaza City killed four people, said the civil defence agency, which operates as a rescue service under Hamas.

Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital confirmed receiving the four bodies.

Another Israeli airstrike targeting a police station in the Al-Noss area of Al-Mawasi district in western Khan Yunis killed five people and wounded another 17, the agency reported.

Khan Yunis’s Nasser Hospital confirmed receiving five bodies and treating the wounded, some of them in “critical condition”.

The Gaza police directorate confirmed that Israeli warplanes struck the police station in Khan Yunis.

In a separate incident, Israeli naval forces shot dead a fisherman in the early hours of Sunday, the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah said after receiving his body.

The Israeli military said it was looking into reports of the attacks.

Sunday’s bloodshed followed a deadly Saturday that saw at least 12 people killed across Gaza, including a man the Israeli military identified as a Hamas “terrorist cell commander”.

At least 961 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire took effect on October 10 last year, according to Gaza’s health ministry, which operates under Hamas authority and whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations.

The Israeli army has reported five deaths in its ranks during the same period.

Restrictions imposed on media outlets and limited access in Gaza prevent AFP from independently verifying tolls or freely covering the violence there.