Israeli strike kills 7 at Gaza police checkpoint

An airstrike hit a police checkpoint in Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip early on Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring several others, medics said. It was not immediately clear whether all those killed were police members. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. According to Al-Jazeera, at least seven Palestinians were killed, others wounded, in Israeli strikes across the central and southern Gaza Strip. A series of Israeli strikes has killed dozens of Hamas-led police force members since October, according to medics and police sources. Israel and Hamas reached a US-brokered deal last October that was meant to halt violence in the Palestinian territory. Both sides accuse each other of breaching the agreement. Ten days before US-Israeli attacks on Iran plunged the region into war, Trump hosted a conference in Washington that saw Gulf Arab states pledge billions for the governance and reconstruction of Gaza after a two-year pulverisation by Israel. Since the start of Israeli attacks in October 2023, the total death toll in Gaza has risen to 72,328, while the number of injured has reached 172,184. The Ministry of Health in Gaza released a written statement sharing updated information regarding Israel's attacks, which have been ongoing since October 2023. The statement said that in the last 48 hours, the bodies of 11 Palestinians who died in Israeli attacks and 26 injured people were brought to hospitals in Gaza. Since the ceasefire was declared in Gaza on October 10, 749 Palestinians have lost their lives, 2,082 have been injured, and the bodies of 759 have been recovered. According to reports in the Palestinian press, the Israeli army, once again violating the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, targeted the police station in the Bureij Refugee Camp with warplanes. Six people were killed in an Israeli army attack on a police station in the camp. The Global Sumud Flotilla is setting sail from Barcelona towards Gaza this time with twice the number of participants. The Global Sumud Flotilla, formed in 2025 by representatives of NGOs, activists, and volunteers from different countries around the world to break the blockade on Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid, is setting sail for Gaza for the second time.