The tolls could not be independently verified, and Israel did not release its own casualty figures.<\/p>\n
\t Among the reported strikes was an attack on the Sheikh Radwan police station in Gaza City, which Hamas\u2019s interior ministry said was hit Saturday morning. Palestinian media put the death toll from the police station at 16, including officers and detainees.<\/p>\n Hamas\u2019s interior ministry said the dead at the police station included several civilians and at least five officers, including one with a rank equivalent to colonel, two of a rank equivalent to major, and two of a rank equivalent to lieutenant. At least 15 police officers were also wounded, the ministry said.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Palestinian media reported three people killed in an Israeli strike near an UNRWA school in the Nasser district of western Gaza City.<\/p>\n Hamas accused Israel of carrying out a \u201cblatant violation of the ceasefire agreement,\u201d claiming that 12 people killed in overnight strikes included six children, and that seven of the dead belonged to a single family sheltering in a displaced peoples\u2019 camp in Khan Younis.<\/p>\n According to the military, the strikes were launched after eight gunmen emerged from a tunnel in southern Gaza\u2019s Rafah on Friday. The IDF said at the time that three of the gunmen were killed in strikes and a fourth, described as a key Hamas commander, was captured.<\/p>\n \t The army said the incident in Rafah constituted a breach of the ceasefire.<\/p>\n The flare-up in violence came a day before Israel was set to reopen the Rafah Crossing<\/a> between the Gaza Strip and Egypt for pedestrian traffic in both directions at the start of next week, in accordance with the ceasefire deal<\/p>\n Israeli fire has killed more than 500 people \u2014 most of them civilians, according to Gaza health officials \u2014 since the US-brokered truce between Hamas and Israel took effect in October after two years of war.<\/p>\n Palestinian terror operatives have killed four Israeli soldiers since the truce, according to Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n The two sides have traded blame over ceasefire violations, even as Washington presses them to proceed to the next phases of the ceasefire deal meant to end the conflict for good.<\/p>\n The war started following the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking a further 251 hostages. The body of the final hostage, Ran Gvili, was returned this week, ending the first phase of US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n The next phase of Trump\u2019s plan includes complex issues such as Hamas disarmament, which the group has long rejected, further Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the deployment of an international peacekeeping force.<\/p>\n
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