{"id":1011386,"date":"2026-08-19T20:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1011386\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:32:49","slug":"hamas-condemns-new-war-crime-as-israel-kills-10-in-crowded-gaza-hubs-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1011386\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas condemns \u2018new war crime\u2019 as Israel kills 10 in crowded Gaza hubs | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill 10 Palestinians, targeting police headquarters and a refugee camp in separate attacks.<\/p>\n

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Published On 19 Aug 202619 Aug 2026<\/p>\n

Israeli strikes have killed at least 10 Palestinians in two separate attacks targeting a Gaza City police post and Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.<\/p>\n

Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, condemned what it called \u201ca new war crime\u201d.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, medical sources at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said they received nine Palestinian bodies following an attack on the municipal police headquarters in the centre of Gaza City. Another 15 people were wounded.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said the bombardment occurred at a busy time near a park crowded with civilians, including children.<\/p>\n

Victims of the Gaza City strike included a newly-appointed Gaza City police chief, the director of a women\u2019s police force, and several officers.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, a strike on Nuseirat refugee camp killed one Palestinian, medics said, increasing Wednesday\u2019s death toll to at least 10.<\/p>\n

The Israeli army claimed its air force struck two Hamas commanders in Nuseirat, and that it later struck a Hamas commander in the Tuffah area of Gaza City, without providing evidence of their affiliation.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Hamas rejected Israel\u2019s justification that the strike targeted \u201cresistance leaders\u201d, calling the claim \u201cbaseless and false allegations used to justify its aggression and cover up its deliberate targeting of civilian police and unarmed civilians\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hamas accused the Israeli government of \u201cdeliberately undermining these efforts and dangerously pushing towards reigniting the war of extermination against our people in the Gaza Strip\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Israeli strikes\u00a0killed seven people<\/a> \u2013 including a child \u2013 and wounded 14 others at a crowded cafe on Gaza City\u2019s harbour. The city\u2019s port has been turned into a displacement camp, according to Wafa news agency.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military again claimed, without providing evidence, that it had targeted Hamas commanders in the enclave.<\/p>\n

Diplomatic deadlock<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s attacks occurred two days after US President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law and Middle East envoy Jared Kushner visited the region<\/a> to push for a Trump-backed deal to end to Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza.<\/p>\n

Kushner\u2019s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to break a diplomatic deadlock after Netanyahu rejected an agreement for Israel to withdraw from the Strip in exchange for Hamas disarming.<\/p>\n

Following the meeting, Kushner reiterated \u201cIsrael\u2019s right to defend itself\u201d. He threatened that Hamas must disarm or the US would support Israel to \u201cfinish the job in the appropriate way\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill 10 Palestinians, targeting police headquarters and a refugee camp in separate attacks.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1011387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[113,70,4527,118,3497,99,13191,3097,50,4851],"class_list":["post-1011386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-conflict","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-human-rights","tag-humanitarian-crises","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117124082599727895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}