Israeli air strike on Gaza police post kills seven, officials say

An Israeli strike on a Hamas-run police post in northern Gaza has killed seven people, including a senior officer, according to Palestinian officials.

• An Israeli drone fired four missiles at a police post near a market in Jabalia, northern Gaza, killing at least seven people, Gaza's Hamas-run interior ministry said.
• The interior ministry named the dead as police station head Col Mohammed Marwan Salem and several other officers, condemning the strike as a "massacre".
• An Israeli military official confirmed the strike, stating it had targeted "terrorists".
• In southern Gaza, a man was killed in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, and a 10-year-old boy was killed by Israeli fire in Rafah, medics reported.

Latest developments

• The Israeli army said it targeted Muhammad Marwan Salem, identified as the military security commander of the Hamas Jabalia Central Battalion, and that the operation killed three other Hamas members.
• Palestinian medical sources reported six deaths from the Israeli strikes on the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza.
• A woman was among the seven Palestinians killed in the Israeli strike on the police post in Jabalia, the Health Ministry said.