Israeli attack on north Gaza police station kills eight

Gaza’s interior ministry denounces ‘horrific massacre’ that killed station chief, other police personnel and civilian.An Israeli drone attack has targeted a police station in northern Gaza’s Jabalia camp, killing at least eight people, according to local officials.The attack took place Tuesday afternoon in al-Faluja in western Jabalia, said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3What is the EU’s plan to cut trade with illegal Israeli settlements?list 2 of 3Israel bans Jerusalem’s grand mufti from Al-Aqsa Mosque for one weeklist 3 of 3Andy Burnham apology for Labour stance on Gaza: Is UK’s position shifting?end of listAmong those killed were at least six police personnel, including the station’s director, according to Gaza’s Interior Ministry.A civilian was also killed, the ministry said. It called the attack a “horrific massacre against officers and members of the police force”.AFP cited Gaza’s Palestinian Civil Defence as saying a total of eight people were killed in the attack, including a female officer, with their bodies transferred to al-Shifa Hospital.“Their job was to maintain some sort of law and order and organisation in an area that is known as a marketplace in the middle of a displacement camp,” Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud said.The Jabalia attack is the latest in a near-daily litany of deadly Israeli strikes in Gaza that have continued regularly despite a “ceasefire” agreed last October.Israeli gunfire kills 10-year-old childEarlier today, an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis area killed one man and injured three others, including a child and a woman, reported the Palestinian Wafa news agency. Separately, another man died of wounds sustained from Israeli gunfire two days earlier in the same area, said Wafa.Meanwhile, Israeli gunfire killed a child in Khan Younis’s al-Mawasi area, reported Wafa, bringing today’s total death toll in the enclave to 11.