GAZA CITY: Hamas mentioned an Israeli strike on Sunday killed three law enforcement officials close to the southern Gaza metropolis of Rafah, a day after Israel and militants carried out a hostage-prisoner swap.
The Hamas-run inside ministry initially reported that two officers had been killed and a 3rd was critically wounded in a strike whereas they had been deployed within the Al-Shouka space, east of Rafah, to safe assist.
The third officer later succumbed to his wounds, the ministry mentioned in an up to date assertion.
The Israeli army mentioned in an announcement that its air pressure struck “a number of armed people transferring towards troops within the southern Gaza Strip”.
A fragile ceasefire that got here into impact on January 19 between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has largely introduced a pause to greater than 15 months of preventing within the coastal Palestinian territory.
Since then, Israel has carried out at the very least one different air strike in Gaza. On February 2, it mentioned one in every of its plane fired in direction of a “suspicious automobile” in central Gaza.
The ceasefire was extra just lately put to check when Hamas mentioned it could not launch Israeli hostages on Saturday, accusing Israel of violating phrases of the settlement, significantly on the subject of assist entry.
In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warned Israel would resume “intense preventing” in Gaza except Hamas returns the hostages by midday on Saturday.
Following intense mediation by Qatar and Egypt the most recent hostage-prisoner swap was carried out on Saturday.