Gaza, Jan 31 (EFE).-At least 32 Palestinians, including seven children, were killed on Saturday in multiple Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip despite the ceasefire in force, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health and Civil Defense.
“The Civil Defense teams have completed the recovery of the bodies from the rubble of the Sheikh Radwan police station. The death toll since this morning has risen to 32, most of them women and children,” Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said in a statement.
An Israeli missile struck the Sheikh Radwan police station in Gaza City earlier in the day, initially killing seven people, according to a source at the morgue of Shifa Hospital. The toll later rose to 17 after additional bodies were recovered from the rubble.
The Israeli army confirmed to EFE that it carried out “numerous attacks” on the Gaza Strip, claiming in a statement that four “commanders and other terrorists” from Hamas and Islamic Jihad were killed, without specifying the locations of the strikes.
According to hospital sources and a statement from Hamas’ Interior Ministry, at least nine of those killed at the police station were police officers, including four women.
The dead also include four detainees and other civilians.
The Interior Ministry said a further 15 police officers and staff members were injured in the attack, which it described as an “atrocious crime” and an attempt to undermine the ceasefire agreement.
More deadly strikes
In a separate attack, three Palestinians were killed when an Israeli strike hit a family home in western Gaza City near a school complex run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), local sources said.
Earlier in the day, 12 people were killed in separate attacks across northern and southern Gaza, including six children from two families, according to reports from two hospitals in the enclave.
In the southern city of Khan Yunis, an Israeli drone bombed a tent sheltering displaced people, killing a family of seven, a father, his three sons, and three of his grandchildren, according to a source at Nasser Hospital.
In Gaza City, an airstrike hit an apartment where civilians had sought refuge, killing a mother, three of her children, and another relative, Shifa Hospital said.
Following the latest strikes, Hamas accused Israel of continuing what it described as a “brutal genocidal war” against Gaza, despite the ceasefire.
“These ongoing violations and attacks against civilians, families and children, in their displacement tents confirm once again that the fascist government of occupation is persisting in its war on Gaza,” the group said in a statement.
Hamas called on mediators and the US administration to take “immediate measures” to stop what it said were efforts to undermine the truce.
With Saturday’s deaths, the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect on Oct. 10 has risen to more than 530, including over 100 children, according to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health. EFE
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