By Nidal al-Mughrabi<\/p>\n
CAIRO, July 14 (Reuters) – An Israeli strike and gunfire killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 10-year-old boy, and a senior Hamas police officer, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gazan health and police officials said.<\/p>\n
The deaths add to a toll of more than 1,100 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks since an Octoberceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect, according to health officials in the enclave.<\/p>\n
The truce halted major fighting but has failed to stop sporadic violence. Four Israeli soldiers have been killed by militants in Gaza over the same period.<\/p>\n
Medics said Muataz Abu Shaar, 10, was shot on Tuesday by Israeli gunfire in Rafah, southern Gaza. <\/p>\n
SENIOR GAZA POLICE OFFICER KILLED<\/p>\n
In Jabalia, in the north of the enclave, an Israeli airstrike on a post of the Hamas-led police force killed at least seven people, including a woman, and wounded several other people, medics and police officials said.<\/p>\n
The Hamas-led interior ministry said in a statement the dead included the head of the Jabalia police force, Colonel Mohammad Marwan Salem, along with other officers.<\/p>\n
Israel has stepped up its attacks against Hamas security men and police posts, killing dozens of them since October, according to police sources. <\/p>\n
Israel wants Hamas to cede control of Gaza and disarm, and while the group said it was ready to relinquish power, it has always resisted calls to lay down arms.<\/p>\n
In Khan Younis, in the south, an Israeli airstrike killed a 36-year-old man and left three peoplewounded, medics said. The Israeli military said it struck a Hamas militant.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on either of the Rafah or Jabalia incidents.<\/p>\n
TALKS ON TRUMP PEACE PLAN<\/p>\n
The latest violence comes as Hamas leaders visited Cairo for further talks on implementing the second phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan.<\/p>\n
The discussions include Hamas disarmament and Israeli army withdrawals, according to sources close to the talks, who said little progress had been made in the past weeks towards reaching a broad agreement to end the conflict.<\/p>\n
Hamas says Israel’s violations of the ceasefire are a key obstacle to implementing the second phase of Trump’s plan.<\/p>\n
Nearly all of Gaza’s 2 million \u2060people, most of whom have been displaced several times, now live on a tiny strip of land along the coast, mainly in makeshift tents or damaged buildings, under Hamas control.<\/p>\n
Hamas-led fighters killed 1,200 people during their cross-border attack into Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Israeli tallies. The \u200bGazan health ministry said more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since then.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Andrei Khalip and Alison Williams)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, July 14 (Reuters) – An Israeli strike and gunfire killed at least nine Palestinians,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-541173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541173","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=541173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}