Israeli airstrike, fire kill 12 in Gaza, West Bank

Eight people were killed by an Israeli airstrike that targeted a police vehicle near the entrance to the town of Al-Zawayda in central Gaza, Gaza's interior authorities said Sunday, reported Xinhua.

Local sources reported that an Israeli drone targeted the police vehicle belonging to the Hamas-run interior authorities. Palestinian medical sources told Xinhua the airstrike also wounded several bystanders.

Also on Sunday, an Israeli drone fired at least one missile at a gathering of Palestinians in the al-Sawarha area, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to eyewitnesses.

Al-Awda Hospital in the camp said the strike killed a man, his wife, and their son.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on either strike.

Gaza-based health authorities reported in its daily update on Sunday that the bodies of five people and eight wounded individuals arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals in the past 24 hours.

This has brought the death toll since the ceasefire went into effect in October 2025 to 663, with 1,762 wounded, and raised the total number of casualties since Oct. 7, 2023, to 72,239 dead and 171,861 wounded, the authorities said.

Meanwhile, four Palestinians, including two children, were killed early Sunday when Israeli special forces opened fire on a vehicle in the town of Tammun in the West Bank, said Palestine Red Crescent Society.

In a press statement, the Red Crescent said that its crews retrieved the bodies of the four victims from the vehicle hit by gunfire.

Local sources said the victims were from the same family. The sources added that Israeli special forces had been pursuing two young men in one of the town's neighborhoods before opening fire on the passing vehicle.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army regarding the incident.

The town of Tammun and other areas in the nearby city of Tubas have been witnessing almost daily raids by the Israeli army. Israel often describes such raids in the West Bank as "counter-terrorism operations" targeting individuals associated with Palestinian armed groups.