An Israeli airstrike targeting a tent encampment in Gaza killed at least 10 Palestinians, including women and children. The strike also killed the director general of Gaza’s police department and his aide. Israel says the strike targeted a Hamas security official.
An Israel i air strike killed at least 10 Palestinians in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families in the southern Gaza Strip early on Thursday, medics said. They said the 10 people, including women and children, were killed in a tent in Al-Mawasi, which was designated as a humanitarian zone for civilians earlier in the day. The director general of Gaza ’s police department, Mahmoud Salah, and his aide, Hussam Shahwan, were killed in the strike, the Hamas -run Gaza interior ministry said.
“By committing the crime of assassinating the director general of police in the Gaza Strip, the occupation is insisting on spreading chaos in the (enclave) and deepening the human suffering of citizens,” it added in a statement. The Israeli military said it had conducted an intelligence-based strike in Al-Mawasi, just west of the city of Khan Younis, and eliminated Shahwan, calling him the head of Hamas security forces in southern Gaza. It made no mention of Salah’s death. Israel has killed more than 45,500 Palestinians in the war, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced and much of the tiny, heavily built-up coastal territory is in ruins. The war was triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 cross-border attack on southern Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and another 251 taken hostage to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies
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