26 were killed in Gaza as a result of Israeli raids on the Strip

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that Israel launched its heaviest air strikes on the Strip in weeks on Saturday, killing 26 people.

She added that the bombing targeted a police station run by Hamas, residential apartments, and tents in the Al-Mawasi area, which houses displaced people.

Medics and security officials reported that Israeli warplanes targeted the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood police station, west of Gaza City, killing 10 policemen and detainees, despite the fragile ceasefire agreed upon between Israel and Hamas.

Police said rescue teams were searching for more dead and injured people at the site.

Officials at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said that another air strike on an apartment killed three girls and two women. Meanwhile, seven people were killed as a result of the bombing of tents in Khan Yunis in the south.

An Israeli military source said that the raids were a response to an incident that occurred yesterday, Friday, when Israeli forces spotted eight gunmen emerging from a tunnel in southern Rafah, where forces are currently deployed under the ceasefire agreement concluded in October.

Israeli forces killed three of the militants, while a fourth was arrested, whom the Israeli army described as a prominent leader of the Hamas movement in the region.

A video from Gaza City showed burned, charred, and destroyed walls in an apartment in a multi-storey building, and debris scattered inside and outside it in a street.