The death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank Sunday climbed to 16, one of the heaviest in a single day in weeks, according to local health officials.
Medics and the Gaza Interior Ministry said an Israeli airstrike killed a senior police official and eight other officers when it hit their vehicle near the entrance to Zawayda town in the central Gaza Strip.
At least 14 other people, mostly bystanders, were wounded, the Gaza Health Ministry said.
Earlier Sunday, one strike hit a house in the urban refugee camp of Nuseirat in central Gaza and killed four people, including a couple in their 30s and their 10-year son, according to the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. The woman had been pregnant with twins, the hospital said.
The fourth fatality, a 15-year-old neighbor, was taken to the Awda hospital in Nuseirat.
