Not less than 12 Palestinians, together with two boys, a pregnant girl and eight law enforcement officials, had been killed Sunday (March 15, 2026) by Israeli airstrikes within the war-torn Gaza Strip, hospital authorities mentioned.
A strike Sunday (March 15, 2026) morning hit a home within the city refugee camp of Nuseirat in central Gaza and killed 4 folks, together with a pair of their 30s and their 10-year son, in line with the close by Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. The girl had been pregnant with twins, the hospital mentioned.
The fourth fatality, a 15-year-old neighbor, was taken to the Awda hospital in Nuseirat.
“We had been sleeping and bought as much as the strike of a missile. The strike was sturdy,” mentioned Mahmoud al-Muhtaseb, a neighbor. “There was no prior warning.” One other strike Sunday afternoon hit a police automobile on the south-north Salah al-Din route on the entrance of the central city of Zawaida, the Hamas-run Inside Ministry mentioned.
The strike killed eight law enforcement officials, together with Col. Iyad Ab Yousef, a senior police official in central Gaza, the ministry mentioned.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which obtained the our bodies, confirmed the toll. It mentioned 14 others had been wounded.
There was no fast remark from the Israeli navy on both strike.
Hamas oversees a police drive that maintained a excessive diploma of public safety after the militants seized energy in Gaza in 2007, whereas additionally cracking down on dissent.
The police largely melted away throughout the battle as Israeli forces seized massive areas of Gaza and focused Hamas safety forces with airstrikes.
However following an October ceasefire, they’ve reappeared in Gaza streets and reasserted management in areas not managed by the Israeli navy.
Killings proceed regardless of ceasefire Sunday’s deaths had been the most recent fatalities amongst Palestinians within the coastal enclave because the ceasefire deal tried to halt a greater than two-year battle between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Whereas the heaviest preventing has subsided, the ceasefire has nonetheless seen virtually day by day Israeli fireplace. Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes and steadily fireplace on Palestinians close to military-held zones, killing greater than 650 Palestinians, in line with Gaza well being officers.
Israel says it has responded to violations of the ceasefire or focused wished militants. However about half of these killed have been girls and youngsters, in line with the Gaza Well being Ministry.
They had been amongst greater than 72,200 Palestinians killed within the battle, which was triggered when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023. The militant assault killed over 1,200 folks and took over 250 others hostage.
The well being ministry, which is a part of the Hamas-led authorities, maintains detailed casualty information which are seen as usually dependable by U.N. companies and unbiased consultants. Nevertheless it doesn’t give a breakdown of civilians and militants.
Militants have carried out capturing assaults on troops, and Israel says its strikes are in response to that and different violations. 4 Israeli troopers have been killed because the ceasefire.
Israel to permit reopening of Rafah crossing Individually, Israel introduced it is going to permit the reopening of Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt beginning Wednesday after greater than two-week hiatus.
COGAT, the Israeli navy physique answerable for coordinating help to Gaza, mentioned in a press release that the crossing will resume operations with “restricted” passenger site visitors in each instructions. No cargo will likely be allowed by the crossing, it mentioned.
COGAT mentioned procedures would be the similar as earlier than the crossing closed after Israel and the U.S. launched devastating strikes on Iran on February 28, triggering an increasing battle within the area.
Since its opening earlier this yr, Israel allowed a restricted evacuation of sufferers and wounded folks for therapy exterior Gaza – a fraction of greater than 20,000 requiring medical evacuations, in line with the Gaza Well being Ministry.
Some Palestinian who had been handled in Egypt throughout the battle had been additionally allowed to return to the strip. Among the returnees reported abuses by Israeli troops as soon as they crossed the Palestinian gate of the crossing.
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