Israeli Airstrike Kills at Least Six at Gaza Police Checkpoint in Bureij Camp
\nDetails and Context of the Bureij Camp Airstrike<\/p>\n
Casualties and Immediate Aftermath<\/p>\n
CAIRO, April 11 (Reuters) – 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.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear whether all those killed were police members. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.<\/p>\n
Background on Recent Israeli Strikes
\nTargeting of Hamas-led Police Forces<\/p>\n
A series of Israeli strikes has killed dozens of Hamas-led police force members since October, according to medics and police sources.<\/p>\n
Ceasefire Agreement and Ongoing Tensions<\/p>\n
Israel and Hamas reached a U.S.-brokered deal last October that was meant to halt violence in the Palestinian territory. Both sides accuse each other of breaching the agreement.<\/p>\n
Casualty Figures Since the Agreement<\/p>\n
Israeli fire has killed at least 700 Palestinians since the deal was struck, while four Israeli soldiers have been killed by militants in the same period.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Hatem Maher; Editing by Sam Holmes)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Airstrike Kills at Least Six at Gaza Police Checkpoint in Bureij Camp Details and Context of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[184396,184395,184397,184398,85,46,33778,16217,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-386756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-bureij-camp","9":"tag-gaza-police-checkpoint","10":"tag-gaza-strip-violence","11":"tag-hamas-police-deaths","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-israel-hamas-conflict","15":"tag-israeli-airstrike","16":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}