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Sunday, March 15, 2026
Hamas Interior Ministry: 8 police officers killed in IDF strike in central Gaza
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Hamas’s Interior Ministry says the head of the “Intervention Police” unit in central Gaza, Iyad Abu Youssef, has been killed along with seven other Hamas police officers when an IDF strike hit a police vehicle on Salah a-Din Street at the entrance to the village of Zawayda in the Gaza Strip.
The Intervention Police is a unit within Hamas’s police force that, according to reports, is tasked with enforcing internal discipline among the civilian population in Gaza.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF on the strike.
مصادر محلية: نقل جثامين 8 شهداء إلى مستشفى شهداء الأقصى وسط قطاع غزة بعد قصف الاحتلال مركبة للشرطة الفلسطينية على شارع صلاح الدين قبل قليل pic.twitter.com/CS3vK1JVUJ
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