An Israeli airstrike on a post belonging to the Hamas police force in Gaza has killed at least seven people, including a senior officer, health and police officials say.

Witnesses told the BBC that an Israeli drone fired four missiles at the stall near a busy market in the Jabalia area of ​​northern Gaza.

The Palestinian territory’s Hamas-run Interior Ministry said local police station chief Col. Mohammed Marwan Salem and several other officers were among those killed in what it condemned as a “massacre.”

An Israeli military officer confirmed that he had carried out an attack in the area and said it was targeting “terrorists.”

Two more people were reportedly killed by Israeli fire in southern Gaza on Tuesday.

An airstrike killed one man and injured three other people in the Khan Younis area, doctors told Reuters news agency.

The Israeli military said it attacked a Hamas operative.

In nearby Rafah, a 10-year-old boy named Muataz Abu Shaar was killed by Israeli gunfire, according to doctors.

The Israeli military has not yet commented on that incident.

Both Israel and Hamas have accused each other of almost daily violations of the ceasefire that went into effect in the Palestinian territory last October.

Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry has said at least 1,110 people have been killed by Israeli fire since then, while the Israeli army has said four of its soldiers have been killed in Palestinian attacks.

The war was triggered by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which some 1,200 people were killed and another 251 were taken hostage.

Israel responded to the attack by launching a military campaign in Gaza, during which more than 73,230 people were killed, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.