Gaza’s civil defence agency said two other Israeli strikes later on Thursday elsewhere in the territory killed 14 Palestinians.
The civil defence agency said Shahwan was among 11 people killed in the strike, which according to the rescuers and authorities in Gaza also left the commander of the police force, Mahmud Salah, dead.
Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, said the two senior police officers were among the dead.
Ambulance driver Saleem Abu Subha said rescuers “found the injured lying on the ground, most of them children, as well as two female martyrs” at the site of the strike.
The territory’s Hamas-run interior ministry condemned in a statement the killing of the two top officers, saying “they were performing their humanitarian and national duty in serving our people”.
“The police force is a civil protection force that works to provide services to citizens,“ the ministry statement said.
The interior ministry said Salah spent 30 years in the force and was appointed police chief six years ago.
Elsewhere in Gaza, the civil defence agency said a strike on Jabalia, in the north, killed at least 10 people.
It came a day after Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened to intensify strikes on Gaza in response to renewed rocket fire from the territory into Israel.
The resumption of launches in recent days, though in far lower numbers than in the early stages of the war and causing little damage, represents a political blow for the Israeli government which has vowed to eliminated Hamas’s military capabilities.
The October 7 attack last year that sparked the war resulted in the deaths of 1,208 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Israel’s retaliatory response has so far killed at least 45,581 people in Gaza, the majority civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry, figures which the United Nations considers reliable.
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