▲ A police station in Gaza City heavily damaged by an Israeli airstrike.
Israel has launched an airstrike on a police station, resulting in numerous casualties.
According to local media and foreign outlets on the 19th local time, the Israeli military struck a police station in Gaza City, the largest city in the Gaza Strip, earlier that day.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported that the strike killed at least 9 people and injured 15 others.
The Hamas-run police authority stated that women were among the dead, and a spokesperson for the Gaza Ministry of Interior condemned the attack as a brutal massacre targeting police officers.
Also that day, an Israeli attack in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip killed a man riding a motorcycle.
Regarding the attack in Gaza City, the Israeli military claimed that it targeted a Hamas commander who was inside the police station at the time. It also claimed that the Nuseirat airstrike hit a Hamas commander who had participated in the October 7, 2023 surprise attack on Israel.
Previously, the Israeli military struck a cafe at the Gaza City port the day before, leaving 6 people dead.
Additionally, multiple witnesses and Hamas officials reported that the Israeli military crossed the control line in the southern Gaza Strip early that morning, arresting and detaining a Hamas police official.
Before these strikes, the Arab news channel Al Arabiya reported that Israel had notified a delegation of the peace committee led by President Trump in advance that it was planning additional attacks targeting Hamas police.
Ahead of the general election in October, the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been expanding its offensive in the Gaza Strip, following its rejection of the Gaza peace committee's proposal led by President Trump for the disarmament of Hamas and the withdrawal of Israeli troops.
(Photo: AP, Yonhap News)
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