Israeli occupation forces escalated their bloody attacks on the Gaza Strip since Tuesday morning, resulting in the martyrdom of 13 people in various areas. The most violent of these attacks focused on the northern part of the Strip, where warplanes targeted headquarters and security centers belonging to the Palestinian police force.
In a new massacre targeting institutional work, Colonel Muhammad Marwan Salem, director of the Jabalia refugee camp police station, was martyred along with a number of police officers and personnel. The airstrike occurred west of the camp, where occupation aircraft launched four missiles at a security point, also leading to the martyrdom of a female civilian who was present at the scene.
For its part, the Israeli occupation army admitted to carrying out the assassination, claiming that Colonel Salem holds the position of head of military security in the central Jabalia battalion, which belongs to the military wing of the Hamas movement. These claims come in the context of the occupation's continuous attempts to justify targeting civilian and security personnel who manage the affairs of citizens in the Strip.
The Ministry of Interior and National Security in Gaza mourned the martyrs of duty from police officers and personnel, affirming that this targeting represents a full-fledged war crime. The ministry indicated that the occupation systematically seeks to undermine the security and civilian system to spread chaos and deprive residents of any legal or administrative protection.
The Ministry of Interior directed sharp criticism at the Deputy UN Coordinator for the Peace Process, accusing him of fabricating slanders against the police force hours before the targeting. The ministry considered that these statements provided political cover for the occupation to commit its crime, demanding that the UN Secretary-General open an urgent investigation into this blatant bias.
The raids were not limited to security centers but also targeted the tents of unarmed displaced persons in different areas of the besieged Strip. Two Palestinians were martyred in a shelling that targeted a tent near Sheikh Ajlin Mosque southwest of Gaza City, as part of the continued targeting of densely populated civilian gatherings.
In Khan Yunis city to the south, an Israeli drone launched a raid on a tent sheltering displaced persons in the vicinity of Taybeh Towers, leading to the martyrdom of one citizen and the injury of three others with varying degrees of wounds. Reconnaissance planes continue their intensive flights over displacement areas, creating a state of constant terror among displaced families.
In the Mawasi Rafah area, which the occupation claims are safe areas, the child Moataz Abu Shaar and the young man Bilal Abu Mousa were martyred by the bullets of the occupation army. These field incidents confirm that sniper bullets and artillery shelling spare no one, even in areas classified by the occupation as destinations for forced displacement.
The latest statistics from the Palestinian Ministry of Health indicate that the occupation's violations of the ceasefire agreement have led to a worsening humanitarian catastrophe. Since the signing of the agreement until Monday, 1108 martyrs have fallen and more than 3500 others have been injured, putting the agreement at risk in the face of Israeli intransigence.
Observers and officials in Gaza believe that targeting the joints of governmental and police work aims to completely end the entity and institutional presence of the Strip. Local sources confirmed that the occupation disregards all international norms and conventions that protect civilian employees and workers in humanitarian and security sectors.
Gaza's official bodies renewed their call to the mediators and guarantors of the truce agreement for immediate intervention to curb the aggression and stop targeting the police force. They also called on international human rights organizations to prosecute the leaders and soldiers of the occupation responsible for these brutal crimes that aim to undermine the foundations of life in Gaza.
Targeting police forces and governmental work joints in the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the program to end the institutional entity of the Strip.
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13 Martyrs in Gaza: Occupation Assassinate Jabalia Police Director and Continues Targeting Civilian Institutions