According to local health officials, Israeli airstrikes have killed at least a dozen people in Gaza over the past two days, with such attacks continuing almost daily despite a ceasefire with Hamas that has been in place for several months.

On Wednesday, three members of the same family lost their lives in central Gaza, according to officials at Al Aqsa Hospital.

On Tuesday, a woman and six police officers were among those killed in an airstrike on a police station in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to hospital officials.

A man died in the bombing of a tent camp in Khan Younis in the south, as reported by Nasser Hospital officials.

Additionally, Israeli forces shot and killed a child in the Muwasi area outside the southernmost city of Rafah, hospital officials confirmed.

The Israeli military offered no immediate response to the strikes in central and southern Gaza.

In a statement concerning the attack in Jabaliya, it asserted that four of the deceased police officers were Hamas militants, though it provided no evidence to substantiate how those killed were implicated in planning or executing attacks.

According to the Hamas-run Interior Ministry, one of the officers, Colonel Mohamad Marwan Salem, was a senior police commander and the head of the Jabaliya police station.

Having governed Gaza for years, Hamas maintains an armed wing alongside civilian police and security services, all under the authority of its Interior Ministry.

Throughout the conflict, Israel has targeted local police forces, including those tasked with guarding humanitarian aid convoys.

Israel's military has asserted that it regards police stations as legitimate targets when they are "being used to advance military activities, or if those present are military operatives involved in advancing terrorist activities."

The report did not specify which military operations it suspected were occurring at the Jabaliya police station, nor did it offer any evidence that assaults were being orchestrated.

Hamas asserts that the police force is tasked with upholding public order and security.

The United Nations human rights office has condemned Israeli attacks on Gaza’s police, noting that in the past month alone, police personnel were targeted at least a dozen times in 2026, including “during ordinary law enforcement operations, including directing traffic and patrolling streets and markets.”

The pattern of attacks raises concerns that Israeli forces are failing to distinguish between police personnel and combatants affiliated with armed groups in Gaza, the statement issued on June 3 asserted.

Ofer Guterman, a researcher at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies, stated that Israel's targeting indicates it views certain components of Hamas's policing apparatus as closely intertwined with its military infrastructure, encompassing dual-role personnel and the use of facilities for weapons storage, operations, and logistics.

The fragile ceasefire agreement in October sought to bring an end to a two-year-long conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The most intense combat has subsided, yet at least 1,123 people have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.

The ministry, which has been part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are generally seen as reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts.

It does not provide a breakdown of civilians and militants but states that women and children account for most of the dead.

Militants have perpetrated shooting attacks against troops, and Israel asserts that its airstrikes are a response to these and other infractions.

Five Israeli soldiers have been killed since the ceasefire took effect.

The conflict began after the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed around 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.

According to Gaza's Health Ministry, Israel's retaliatory offensive in Gaza has killed over 73,264 Palestinians, including those killed since the ceasefire.