GAZA: Gaza’s Hamas-run inside ministry mentioned an Israeli air strike on a police car Sunday (Mar 15) killed 9 officers within the centre of the Palestinian territory, updating an earlier hospital toll of eight.
The strike got here as a Hamas delegation was resulting from meet with Egyptian officers in Cairo, in response to a supply from the Palestinian Islamist motion.
Gaza’s civil defence company had additionally reported one other 4 individuals killed in an earlier Israeli strike.
When requested by AFP about each incidents, the Israeli navy mentioned it was trying into the studies.
The Gaza inside ministry, which operates underneath Hamas authority, accused the Israeli navy of committing a “heinous crime this afternoon when it focused a police car carrying a number of officers and personnel within the central governorate”.
“The assault resulted within the killing of 9 officers and personnel,” it mentioned in an announcement, itemizing the victims, amongst them the police chief for the central governorate, Colonel Iyad Abu Yousef.
Earlier, th Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir el-Balah mentioned it had acquired the our bodies of “eight martyrs” killed within the strike in town of Zawaida in central Gaza.
Hamas condemned the incident, saying: “This treacherous crime displays the truce face of the occupation and its uncovered coverage aimed toward persevering with the warfare of genocide and deepening the humanitarian disaster within the Gaza Strip.”
