Gaza Civil Defense said Thursday that at least 11 people, including the police chief of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, had been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
“Eleven people were martyred, including three children and two women, and 15 were injured after the bombing of a tent sheltering displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of the town of Khan Younes , in the south of the Gaza Strip,” Civil Defense said in a statement.
Among those killed were police chief Mahmoud Salah and his deputy, Hussam Shahwan, Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said.
The Interior Ministry of the Hamas-led Gaza Strip condemned the strike which caused the death of the two police chiefs, stressing that they were “accomplishing their humanitarian duty” in the service of their “people”. .
“By committing this assassination, the occupation continues to spread chaos in the Gaza Strip and aggravate the human suffering of citizens,” the ministry added in a statement, specifying that Salah had spent 30 years in the police force. and that he had been appointed to lead them six years ago.
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