Israeli attacks on Gaza killed eleven people, including a married couple and their child, and injured several others on Sunday, according to medical workers and witnesses in the Palestinian territory.
Five months into a fragile and often-broken ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, an Israeli drone strike on a group of Palestinians in Sawarha in central Gaza killed a married couple and their child, workers at Al-Awda Hospital said.
Meanwhile eight police officers, including a police chief, were killed near the entrance to the town of Al-Zawayda, also in central Gaza, when an Israeli military drone targeted a police vehicle with a rocket, local witnesses said.
Some of those killed were torn apart by the explosion, while several passersby sustained varying injuries, hospital workers said.
Gaza’s Interior Ministry, controlled by Hamas, also reported the attack. The Israeli military said it was checking the reports.
Hundreds of people have been killed in Israeli strikes since the start of the ceasefire, according the Hamas-led Health Ministry. Both Hamas and Israel have accused each other of violations of the agreement to end hostilities.
Unlike Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Iran-backed Hamas has so far stayed out of the war with Iran, and, in an unusual move, has called on Iran to halt its attacks on neighbouring Gulf states.
Relatives bid farewell to Kamel Ayash, his child, and his pregnant wife—who was carrying twins—after an Israeli missile strike targeted their apartment in the Al-Sawarha area of the Nuseirat refugee camp Ramzi Abu Amer/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa