GAZA: Gaza’s Hamas-run inside ministry stated an Israeli air strike on a police automobile 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 on account of meet with Egyptian officers in Cairo, in line with a supply from the Palestinian Islamist motion.
Gaza’s civil defence company had additionally reported one other 4 folks killed in an earlier Israeli strike.
When requested by AFP about each incidents, the Israeli army stated it was wanting into the studies.
The Gaza inside ministry, which operates beneath Hamas authority, accused the Israeli army of committing a “heinous crime this afternoon when it focused a police automobile carrying a number of officers and personnel within the central governorate”.
“The assault resulted within the killing of 9 officers and personnel,” it stated in a press release, 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 stated it had obtained 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 geared toward persevering with the battle of genocide and deepening the humanitarian disaster within the Gaza Strip.”
