Israeli strike on police post in north Gaza kills seven, officials say
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The Israeli military has continued to carry out regular strikes in Gaza despite the ceasefire with Hamas
An Israeli air strike on a post belonging to Gaza's Hamas-run police force has killed at least seven people, including a senior officer and a woman, health and police officials say.
Witnesses told the BBC that an Israeli drone fired four missiles at the post near a busy market in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza.
The Palestinian territory's Hamas-run interior ministry said the head of the local police station, Col Mohammed Marwan Salem, and several other officers were among those killed in what it condemned as a "massacre".
The Israeli military said Marwan was the head of military security for Hamas's Central Jabalia Battalion, and that three other "terrorists" were killed alongside him.
It identified them as Abdul Malik al-Jabin, Ghassan al-Daqas and Yaman Abu Obeida, and said the first two men were police officers.
The casualties were taken to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, where the uncle of another dead police officer insisted he was a civilian.