5 including police boss killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza

At least five Palestinians, including the police chief of northern Gaza, were killed in separate Israeli airstrikes across the strip on Saturday, Palestinian sources said, reported Xinhua.

Abdul Nasser Mohammed al-Maqadma, 54, the police chief of northern Gaza under Hamas-run interior authorities, was killed after an Israeli drone struck his vehicle in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, according to a brief statement by the authorities and local sources.

In other incidents, medical sources said two Palestinians, including a woman, were killed in a drone strike on a house west of Khan Younis, a Palestinian was killed in a strike targeting a bicycle in northern Gaza City, and one Palestinian was killed and three others were injured in a strike on a tent sheltering displaced people near the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Ten more people, including women and children, were injured in a strike on the gate of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, the sources added.

The Israeli military has not commented on these incidents.

Gaza-based health authorities said Saturday that the death toll since a ceasefire took effect in October 2025 has reached 1,191, with 3,853 injured.

The overall death toll since Oct. 7, 2023, has reached 73,317, with 173,961 injured, they added.