{"id":999462,"date":"2026-08-14T03:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/999462\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:20:16","slug":"gaza-city-police-chief-killed-as-israel-pushes-on-with-deadly-strikes-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/999462\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza City police chief killed as Israel pushes on with deadly strikes | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Latest Israeli attacks kill police official Jamal Abu Kamil in Gaza City and another person in Khan Younis.<\/p>\n

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Published On 13 Aug 202613 Aug 2026<\/p>\n

An Israeli drone strike has killed the head of the civil police force in Gaza City.<\/p>\n

Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Interior said Colonel Jamal Abu Kamil, 43, was killed on Thursday when a drone fired three missiles at his vehicle on al-Rashid Street, southwest of Gaza City, also injuring two others.<\/p>\n

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The killing comes a day after Israel ended a weeklong pause in air raids on the strip. The pause did not see an end to deadly ground attacks<\/a>, as Israel continues to violate a so-called \u201cceasefire\u201d agreed to in October.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said it targeted Abu Kamil to \u201cremove a threat\u201d, claiming, without providing evidence, that he was a Hamas commander.<\/p>\n

Gaza\u2019s police force denied the claim, releasing a statement saying that Abu Kamil \u201ccommitted to his police duties and has no connection to other activities\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Interior said Abu Kamil \u201cwas assassinated\u201d in the Israeli strike.<\/p>\n

Hamas also condemned the killing in a statement, calling it \u201ca continuation of the brutal crimes committed by the occupation against our Palestinian people\u201d and its \u201cpathetic and failed attempts to spread chaos and lawlessness in the Gaza Strip\u201d.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Thursday, an Israeli strike targeted a motorbike carrying two people in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing one person and critically wounding the other. Israel made the same claim that it was targeting a Hamas commander, without providing evidence.<\/p>\n

Strikes resume<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Israel carried out its first air strike in Gaza since August 3, attacking a vehicle in Beit Lahiya, which killed a municipal worker and wounded five others.<\/p>\n

Israel had halted air raids for more than a week under United States pressure after President Donald Trump\u2019s announcement of a \u201cmajor milestone\u201d in his plan to end the war.<\/p>\n

Trump announced last month that Israel and Hamas had agreed to his 15-point plan, to be implemented by the Gaza Board of Peace, under which Israeli forces would withdraw and Hamas would disarm.<\/p>\n

Hamas said it accepts the deal to avoid a return to full-scale war, but insists that implementation depends on Israel first withdrawing its forces and halting attacks.<\/p>\n

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a rejection<\/a> of the agreement on Sunday, saying Israeli forces would not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas was \u201cgenuinely disarmed\u201d. Three days later, air strikes resumed.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s near-daily attacks since the \u201cceasefire\u201d had taken effect on October 10, 2025, have killed more than 1,250 Palestinians, Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health says.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Palestine\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates called for the US-backed Gaza Peace Plan to be implemented, also condemning<\/a> attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinians returning to Gaza and continued settler attacks in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n

\"AA Palestinian woman and a child mourn during the funeral of Huthaifa Kawari, who, according to health officials, was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on August 13, 2026 [AFP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest Israeli attacks kill police official Jamal Abu Kamil in Gaza City and another person in Khan Younis.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":999463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[372,69,18298,70,18890,4527,99,13191,3097,1802,50,4851],"class_list":["post-999462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-drone-strikes","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-news","tag-palestine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117091713029883251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999462","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=999462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}