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Jabalia police post hit
An Israeli drone attack targeted a police station in northern Gaza’s Jabalia camp, killing at least eight people, according to local officials and Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reporting from Gaza City on Tuesday afternoon in al-Faluja in western Jabalia.
“An Israeli drone attack has targeted a police station in northern Gaza’s Jabalia camp, killing at least eight people, according to local officials”
Al Jazeera reported that among those killed were at least six police personnel, including the station’s director, and a civilian, while AFP cited Gaza’s Palestinian Civil Defence saying a total of eight people were killed and their bodies were transferred to al-Shifa Hospital.
The BBC said an Israeli strike killed dozens of people sheltering in the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School in Gaza City, with hospital directors telling the BBC that at least 54 Palestinians were killed during Israeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight.
The BBC added that the Israel Defense Forces said they had targeted a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command and control center, and that the IDF accused Hamas of using the people of Gaza as human shields.
In parallel, Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent Ghazi Al-Aaloul said the Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip announced the martyrdom of the director of Jabalia Police Center, Mohammed Salem, and several officers and personnel after an Israeli airstrike targeted a police checkpoint in the Al-Falouja area inside Jabalia camp.
Competing death tolls
Al Jazeera’s correspondent Ghazi Al-Aaloul said the Interior Ministry announced the martyrdom of Mohammed Salem and several officers after Israeli drones fired four missiles directly at the tent housing the police point in a crowded market in Jabalia camp.
Al Jazeera’s report also framed the attack as part of a broader pattern, quoting political analyst Ahmed al-Tanani that targeting the police constitutes an 'Israeli message' that goes beyond the military dimension.
The BBC described the school strike in graphic terms, quoting Faris Afana, head of the north Gaza ambulance service, saying, "Some of them were crying, but we could not reach them because of the fires."
The BBC reported that the IDF said it had struck 200 targets in Gaza in 48 hours as part of operations against what they call terrorist organizations, while a senior Hamas official told the BBC that the group had accepted the mediators’ latest ceasefire proposal.
In another account of the Jabalia violence, Al Jazeera Net said sources in Gaza’s hospitals reported that 11 people were killed, including a child and a woman, and that several others were wounded by Israeli fire in various areas of the Strip.
Ceasefire strains and aid
The BBC said mediation efforts continued as a Palestinian negotiator told the BBC that the plan called for the release in two phases of ten Israeli hostages held by Hamas, in return for a 70-day ceasefire and a gradual partial withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
“An Israeli strike kills dozens of people sheltering in a Gaza school, according to officials”
The BBC also reported that Israel has not yet responded to this proposal, and that Israel’s war in Gaza since October 7, 2023 has killed about 1,200, a figure it tied to Hamas’s cross-border attack on October 7, 2023.
Al Jazeera reported that Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7, 2023 has killed at least 73,233 people and injured 173,707, and that at least 1,110 of those victims have been killed since the October truce took effect.
The BBC said the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reiterated its call for a ceasefire after two of its staff were killed in a strike on their house in Khan Younis, and it highlighted the killings of Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal as underscoring the “intolerable number of civilian casualties in Gaza.”
Al Jazeera also reported that Israel’s restrictions on the movement of goods, aid, and travel continue, and that demolitions inside the so-called 'Yellow Line' persist, worsening humanitarian conditions for the displaced across the Strip.
