Ten Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in Israeli military shelling and gunfire across Gaza, including seven people who died in an airstrike on a police post in Al-Falouja, west of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to medical sources and witnesses who spoke to Al Manassa.
Gaza’s Interior Ministry announced that Col. Mohammed Marwan Salem, director of the Jabalia refugee camp police station, was killed along with a number of police officers and personnel. Civilians were also killed and injured when the police post was struck at around 2 pm.
An eyewitness told Al Manassa that Israeli military surveillance drones fired four consecutive missiles at the police post, killing both police officers and civilians, and wounding several others.
“Everything was normal, then suddenly the strike happened and shrapnel spread amid thick clouds of dust,” the witness said.
The witness added that the police post is surrounded by tents housing displaced people who had lost their homes earlier in the genocidal war on Gaza, and said several displaced residents were wounded by shrapnel from the attack.
A medical source in the Health Ministry’s ambulance and emergency services told Al Manassa that crews recovered body parts from victims and transported several wounded people, including those in critical condition, to Al-Shifa Hospital and Al-Saraya Field Hospital, operated by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Gaza City.
A Health Ministry source confirmed to Al Manassa that seven people were killed, including a 16-year-old girl, while more than 20 others were injured, including police personnel and a female police officer in critical condition.
In a statement posted on its WhatsApp account, the Interior and National Security Ministry mourned Col. Mohammed Marwan Salem, director of the Jabalia refugee camp police station, as well as officers Mufid Halawa, Ghassan Al-Daqs, Ibrahim Mousa, Samih Al-Aswad, and police assistant Abdul Malik Abu Al-Jibain.
In a separate statement on its WhatsApp channel, the Interior Ministry accused the Israeli military of committing a massacre by bombing the police post in Al-Falouja.
In a statement posted on its Telegram account, Hamas described the attack on the police post as “a brutal persistence in the crimes committed against our people in the Gaza Strip and a continuation of the fascist Zionist government’s attempts to target the civilian security system in the Gaza Strip.”
The movement said the deliberate bombing of the civilian police post, which had recently been established to “maintain security around a popular market in a densely populated civilian area, is a war crime that embodies the criminal nature of the occupation and its efforts to spread chaos and lawlessness.”
Hamas said that Israel had “failed in all its attempts to undermine our people’s internal cohesion in the Strip,” adding that it has continues to target police posts and police vehicles in an effort to spread disorder among Gaza’s residents.
In its statement, Hamas called on mediators and guarantor states of the ceasefire agreement signed in Sharm El-Sheikh in October 2025, as well as the US administration that sponsored the agreement, to take a clear position on what it described as the Israeli military’s continued violations of the agreement and its perpetration of killings and massacres in Gaza.
In southern Gaza, three Palestinians were killed, including a child and a worker responsible for securing humanitarian aid trucks arriving from the Kerem Shalom crossing, according to a medical source at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, which also received four injured people.
An Israeli military surveillance drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis with a single missile on Tuesday, killing a young man and a child, who were taken to Nasser Medical Complex. An eyewitness told Al Manassa that the tent was targeted from the air without regard for the large number of displaced people in neighboring tents and without prior warning.
A young man working to secure aid trucks was also killed on the coastal road southwest of Khan Younis after Israeli soldiers opened fire on the truck, killing him and wounding others. An eyewitness told Al Manassa that the truck, which was carrying aid for an international organization, came under sudden gunfire.
The truck was one of several that had departed the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing, southeast of Rafah and under Israeli military control, on Tuesday morning en route to warehouses before the aid was to be distributed to people in Gaza.
One of the victim’s colleagues told Al Manassa that their work securing aid convoys begins at the Muawiya area southwest of Khan Younis. Their presence posed no threat to Israeli soldiers and that they carried no weapons, as their role was limited to protecting aid trucks from theft and banditry as they passed through the tent encampments on their way to warehouses in central Gaza, he said.
