Five Palestinian police officers killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza

Israeli aircraft targeted a Palestinian police installation in northern Gaza on Saturday, killing five officers and wounding several others, the Palestinian Police Directorate said in a statement marking the latest fatalities since the October ceasefire took effect.

Police site targeted

The directorate stated that warplanes fired at least two missiles at the site in the Al-Tawam area, killing five police personnel. Medical sources reported additional attacks across the territory, including four Palestinians injured—one critically—in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis.

Two more Palestinians sustained injuries from Israeli gunfire east of the Bureij refugee camp, according to the same sources. A drone attack on the Halawa displacement camp wounded two young men shortly afterward, the sources added.

Ceasefire terms violated

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency the targeted locations fell outside zones designated for Israeli control under the ceasefire. The truce took effect last October to halt a two-year war that has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians—mostly women and children—and wounded over 172,000.

Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that Israeli attacks have killed at least 883 people and injured 2,648 others since the ceasefire was announced last October. The war has destroyed or severely damaged approximately 90 percent of the civilian infrastructure in the territory, according to ministry figures.