Israeli fire kills five people in Gaza<\/p>\n
Gaza \u200cceasefire didn\u2019t end Israeli attacks<\/p>\n
Hamas, Israel trade blame over truce violations<\/p>\n
CAIRO: An Israeli airstrike on Saturday killed the head of \u200bthe Hamas-led police force in the northern Gaza Strip, Brig.-General Abdel-Nasser Al-Maqadma, the Hamas-run interior ministry and medics said. Maqadma, one of at least five Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday, was also known as the governor of the northern Gaza Strip. He was killed in the Sheikh Radwan area north of Gaza City, medics said. The Israeli military said he was also part of Hamas\u2019 military wing. Israel has killed dozens of members of the Hamas-led police force, including senior officials, in the past months, accusing many of them of being members of the Hamas armed \u200cwing who posed imminent \u200cthreats to Israel and its forces inside Gaza. Hamas says \u200bIsraeli \u200cattacks \u2060on \u200bthe police \u2060force and its headquarters are intended to sow chaos and anarchy in the enclave and violate the US-brokered October ceasefire.<\/p>\n
Medic, high school student among Saturday\u2019s dead<\/p>\n
Another Israeli strike on Saturday killed a Palestinian medic in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, medics said. They added that a police officer wounded by an Israeli airstrike last week had died on Saturday. The Israeli military didn\u2019t immediately comment on the incident. An Israeli airstrike also killed two people in a house \u2060in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave, medics said. The \u200cIsraeli military said the strike targeted a militant of \u200cthe Islamic Jihad group. Later on Saturday, an Israeli airstrike, also in \u200bKhan Younis, killed Khaled Al-Breim, a high school \u200cstudent, taking Saturday\u2019s death toll to at least five. Relatives said Breim was killed as \u200che sought to bring sweets to distribute to relatives and friends who had flocked into his family home to offer their congratulations as he had just concluded high school and was preparing for university. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the student\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
The latest deaths add to a toll of more than \u200c1,180 Palestinians, mostly civilians, killed by Israeli attacks since an October ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants took effect, according to Gaza health officials.<\/p>\n
Hamas \u2060does not usually disclose \u2060its losses.<\/p>\n
The truce halted full-scale fighting but has not ended near-daily Israeli strikes. Four Israeli soldiers have been killed by militants in Gaza over the same period.<\/p>\n
Peace talks stalled<\/p>\n
Mediators including Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and the United States have been trying to advance US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan for ending the conflict in Gaza, which calls for Hamas disarmament and Israeli withdrawals, but there has been little sign of progress in the efforts.<\/p>\n
The war began when Hamas-led fighters attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. Israel\u2019s subsequent offensive has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, say Gaza health officials.<\/p>\n
Israel effectively controls an estimated 64 percent of the tiny coastal Strip, bombarded to ruins by Israel\u2019s two-year military assault that followed the 2023 \u200bHamas attack on southern Israel. Nearly all of \u200bGaza\u2019s 2 million people now live on a tiny strip of land, mainly in makeshift tents or damaged buildings and facing dire conditions, under Hamas control.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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