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Israeli air strike kills nine Palestinians

Published: 04:08 PM,Aug 19,2026 | EDITED : 08:08 PM,Aug 19,2026

A person stands on the back of an ambulance at a site destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, August 18, 2026. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
 
A person stands on the back of an ambulance at a site destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, August 18, 2026. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

GAZA: An Israeli air strike killed nine Palestinians at a police station in Gaza on Wednesday, medics said, two days after US envoy Jared Kushner ended a trip to the region that failed to push forward Donald Trump's plan to end the war in the enclave. Medics and police sources ⁠said several officers, some of them high-ranking, were among those killed at what the Hamas-led interior ⁠ministry said was the headquarters of the municipal police. Fifteen others were wounded, they said.
Earlier on Wednesday, in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, a separate Israeli air strike killed one Palestinian, medics said, taking Wednesday's death toll to at least 10.
On Tuesday, ​an ‌Israeli ⁠airstrike killed at least seven Palestinians, including a child, at a beachfront cafe, medics said. On Wednesday, a ​Hamas official said the group had told ceasefire mediators, Egypt, Qatar and ⁠Türkiye that if ​there was no halt to Israel's targeted attacks, 'it would influence their stance on the agreement'. — Reuters