CAIRO: Israeli strikes killed at least eight Palestinians, including five police officers, in the Gaza Strip in two separate attacks on Sunday.

Medics said three people were killed in an Isra­eli air-strike in Gaza City.

The interior ministry said the five police officers were killed in another strike in western Khan Yunis, in the south of the enclave. However, the Israeli military insisted that it struck several militants in Khan Yunis. It did not immediately comment on the Gaza City strike.

Israel, which says the Hamas group has been rearming and launching attacks in violation of a year-old ceasefire, has stepped up strikes on the group in recent weeks.

Hamas has denied trying to carry out attacks or rebuild its arsenal and accuses Israel of undermin­ing the Gaza peace deal.

Last year’s US-brokered ceasefire calls for eventual reconstruction of the territory. But little progress has been made as negotiators have failed to agree terms for Hamas to disarm or Israel to withdraw its troops, who have ordered residents to leave about two-thirds of the territory.

Nearly all of the more than two million residents live in the remaining third of the enclave among war ruins, mostly in makeshift tents and damaged buildings.

Israeli forces have killed at least 1,500 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire.

Published in Dawn, November 2nd, 2026