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Eight Reported Killed in Gaza Strikes, Including Hamas Police Officers in Khan Yunis

Local journalists and Hamas authorities say two strikes in the Gaza Strip killed eight people within an hour, including five Hamas police officers at a post in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis and three people on a street near a shopping center in Gaza City.

Two strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past hour have reportedly killed eight people, including officers from Hamas’s police force in the south and three people in a busy part of Gaza City.

Gazan journalists reported that five people died in a strike on a Hamas police post in an agricultural zone in Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis in the southern Strip. The site was described as part of the former Gush Katif settlement area. Hamas’s Interior Ministry later confirmed that all five were police officers and police commanders and released their names: Mohammad Zakaria Shaker al‑Jamal, Bassam Naaman Murad Maqdad, Mohammad Amin Mahmoud al‑Nammas, Shahir Mohammad Ahmidan Za’arab and Mohammad Ali Hussein Abu [name as provided in the source].

In a separate incident, three more people were reported killed in a strike on al‑Thawra Street near the Taj Mall shopping center in the Rimal neighborhood in western Gaza City.

The reports did not specify which forces carried out the strikes. Israeli aircraft and artillery have been active across the Strip, but there was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces on these specific locations. Casualty figures and identifications currently come from local journalists and Hamas‑run authorities, and have not been independently verified.

The locations underscore how military targets and civilian life overlap in Gaza. An agricultural area hosted a police compound, and a main street close to a shopping center became a strike site. Residents in Khan Yunis and Gaza City are left reassessing which areas, if any, can be considered safer as fighting continues.

Hamas’s police are part of its governing apparatus in Gaza, responsible for internal security and public‑order functions. The reported deaths of officers and commanders in Mawasi could affect how internal policing operates in the southern Strip at a time when many people already face displacement and damage to infrastructure.

The strike near Taj Mall in Rimal, a long‑standing commercial and residential district, again highlights the exposure of people in dense urban neighborhoods to sudden escalation.

Signals to watch now include any confirmation or further detail from the Israeli military about the strikes and their intended targets, observable changes in Hamas policing activity in Khan Yunis and Gaza City, and whether subsequent attacks focus on similar internal‑security sites.

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