Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 54 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 11 people in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families, Reuters reports.

Medics said the 11 included women and children in the Al-Mawasi district, which was designated as a humanitarian zone for civilians earlier in the conflict.

The director general of Gaza’s police department, Mahmoud Salah, and his aide, Hussam Shahwan, were killed in the strike, according to Gaza’s interior ministry.

“By committing the crime of assassinating the director general of police in the Gaza Strip, the occupation is insisting on spreading chaos in the [enclave] and deepening the human suffering of citizens,” it added in a statement.

Other Israeli airstrikes killed at least 43 Palestinians, including six in the interior ministry headquarters in Khan Younis and others in north Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, the Shati (Beach) camp and central Gaza’s Maghazi camp.

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