Israel’s latest strikes said to kill 12 in Gaza, including Hamas police officers
Israeli airstrikes killed at least a dozen people in Gaza over the past two days, local health officials said on Wednesday.
The latest violence came as Morocco signed on to be part of an international military stabilization force in post-war Gaza, and as Hamas leaders wrapped up another round of truce talks in Cairo, as part of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, which halted the war last October.
Media outlets in Gaza affiliated with Hamas reported that three people were killed overnight in an Israeli strike on a house in Deir al-Balah.
According to the reports, the three were a married couple — Omar Abu Qasem and Asma Abu Qasem — and their six-year-old daughter, Habiba.
Their three-year-old son, Sami, survived but was injured, medics said.
An Israeli military official told The Times of Israel that the strike targeted a Hamas operative.
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— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) July 15, 2026
On Tuesday, a woman and six police officers were among those killed in an airstrike on a police station in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, hospital officials said. A man died in the bombing of a tent camp in Khan Younis in the south, Nasser Hospital officials said. And Israeli forces shot and killed a child in the Muwasi area outside the southernmost city of Rafah, according to hospital officials.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strikes in central and southern Gaza. In a statement on the attack in Jabaliya, it claimed that four of the slain police officers were Hamas operatives.
One of the officers, Col. Mohamad Marwan Salem, was a senior police commander and head of the Jabaliya police station, the Hamas-run Interior........
