Israeli bombing in 'safe zone' kills Gaza police chief
Israeli air strikes on the s0-called "safe zone" in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday killed at least 12 displaced Palestinians, including several children and the enclave's police chief, in the latest targeting of the local civil authority.
Major General Mahmoud Salah, director general of police in the Gaza Strip, and Major General Hussam Shahwan, a member of the Police Command Council, were killed in the attack on Khan Younis's al-Mawasi, which Israel had designated a “humanitarian zone”, the Gaza-based government media office said.
"The occupation is insisting on spreading chaos in the strip and deepening the human suffering of citizens," the office said in a statement.
"It is ignoring all international and humanitarian laws, which consider police a civil protection force that plays a humanitarian role in helping citizens and providing services to them in light of the tragic circumstances they are suffering," it added.