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• Steps up attacks aga­inst police headquarters and per­­s­onnel

• Hamas says ending Israeli military operations is essential for progress in negotiations

CAIRO: Israeli strikes on a Ham­as-run police station and a vehicle in the Gaza Strip killed at least nine people and wounded 20 others, health officials said, as mediators began new efforts to salvage a fragile US-brokered ceasefire deal.

One strike hit a police post adjacent to a large tent encampment of displaced families in Khan Yunis in the south of the enclave, killing five people and wounding 16 others, medics said. They did not say how many of the casualties were police.