Hamas’s civil defense agency updates the death toll from the wave of Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip today from 28 to 32.
The IDF said it targeted Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders as well as arms sites in response to a ceasefire violation in Rafah, where eight gunmen emerged from a tunnel yesterday.
The updated toll comes after first responders finished retrieving bodies from the site of the Hamas police station in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood that was struck by Israel this morning, the civil defense agency says.
The agency does not specify how many people were killed in that strike. Palestinian media puts the toll from the police station at 16, including officers and detainees.
Hamas’s interior ministry says the dead at the police station include civilians and at least five officers, including one with a rank equivalent to colonel, two of a rank equivalent to major and two of a rank equivalent to lieutenant. At least 15 police officers were wounded, the ministry says.
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