Mourners react during the funeral of six Palestinian police officers who were killed in an Israeli strike on a police station, according to medics, at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, 14 July 2026;
Credit: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Israeli strike and gunfire killed at least ten Palestinians, including a ten-year-old boy and a senior Hamas police officer, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday 14 July 2026, Gazan health and police officials said.
The deaths add to a toll of more than 1,100 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks since an October 2025 ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect, according to health officials in the enclave.
The truce halted major fighting but has failed to stop sporadic violence. Four Israeli soldiers have been killed by militants in Gaza over the same period.
Medics said Muataz Abu Shaar, ten-years-old, was shot on Tuesday by Israeli gunfire in Rafah, southern Gaza.
Senior Gaza police officer killed, ministry says
In Jabalia, in the north of the enclave, an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas-led police post killed at least seven people, including a woman, and wounded several others, medics and police officials said.
The Hamas-led Interior Ministry said in a statement that the dead included the head of the Jabalia police force, Colonel Mohammad Marwan Salem, along with other officers.
The Israeli military said in a statement it had killed Salem, whom it described as the head of Hamas' central Jabalia battalion, along with three other militants from the group.
Those killed had in recent months gathered with the aim of planning and carrying out attacks, it added. "They were eliminated in order to remove the threat."
Israel wants Hamas to cede control of Gaza and disarm, and while the group has said it is ready to relinquish power, it has consistently resisted calls to lay down its arms.
Later on Tuesday, a Palestinian was killed and several others were wounded near a mosque in western Gaza City, medics said, taking Tuesday's death toll to at least ten.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on that incident or on the death of the ten-year-old boy.
In Khan Younis, in the south, an Israeli airstrike killed a 36-year-old man and left three people wounded, medics said. The Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas militant.
Talks on Trump peace plan
The latest violence comes as Hamas leaders visited Cairo for further talks on implementing the second phase of US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan.
The discussions include Hamas' disarmament and Israeli military withdrawals, according to sources close to the talks, who said little progress had been made in recent weeks towards reaching a broad agreement to end the conflict.
Hamas says Israel's alleged violations of the ceasefire are a key obstacle to implementing the second phase of Trump's plan.
Nearly all of Gaza's two million people, most of whom have been displaced several times, now live on a narrow strip of land along the coast, mainly in makeshift tents or damaged buildings, under Hamas control.
Hamas-led fighters killed 1,200 people during their cross-border attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, according to Israeli figures. The Gazan Health Ministry said more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since then.
