An Israeli strike in Gaza City killed three people, including two police; tank shelling killed two in Beit Lahiya; and a strike on Khan Younis in the south killed seven including four police, according to local medics.
The Israeli military confirmed it had conducted a strike on Gaza City and said it was targeting Hamas militants. The military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the other reported strikes.
The strikes in Gaza City and Khan Younis targeted the local police force, Gaza's interior ministry said. The strike in Khan Younis targeted a police vehicle, the ministry added. Medics and residents said it hit near a wedding hall.
Reuters has previously reported that Israel has heightened its attacks on Gaza's Hamas-run police force that the militant group has used to reestablish governance in the areas it controls in the Strip.
Violence in Gaza has persisted despite the October 2025 ceasefire, with Israel conducting near-daily attacks on Palestinians.
At least 800 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire deal took effect, according to local medics, while Israel says militants have killed four of its soldiers.
Israel and Hamas have exchanged blame for ceasefire violations.
More than 72,000 Gazans have been killed since the war started in October 2023, most of them civilians, according to Gaza health authorities.
Hamas' October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel killed 1200 people, according to Israeli tallies.
Meanwhile, rats, mice and parasites are plaguing displaced people in the Gaza Strip, many of whom are still living in overcrowded tents six months after a ceasefire entered into force between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned of the consequences of these devastating living conditions.
"Destroyed buildings and mountains of accumulated waste have created ideal breeding grounds for rodents and pests," Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, the new WHO representative for the occupied territories, said.
More than half of the Gaza Strip is under Israeli military control. As a result, people in the area - which was already densely populated before the war - are living in cramped conditions in tents and emergency shelters.
In more than 80 per cent of the tent cities and makeshift shelters, there are skin infections and rashes, including scabies, as well as lice and bedbugs, Van de Weerdt said.
More than 70,000 cases of rodent and parasite infestations on the skin have already been reported this year, she said.
with DPA
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