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Five police officers, 13 year-old boy killed in Israeli attack on Gaza

Al Jazeera · · 574 words · By Al Jazeera Staff; Reuters
Collapse of Civil Order Humanitarian crisis in Gaza Israeli military aggression
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11 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“An Israeli air strike has killed at least five police officers and a 13-year-old boy”
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Multiple independent web search results (Reuters and another news source) confirm that an Israeli air strike killed at least five police officers and a 13-year-old boy.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, deliberat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza–Israel conflict is a localized part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict beginning in 1948, when about 200,000 of the more than 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza–Israel_conflict
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“at least one civilian on a nearby street was also killed”
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Multiple sources report civilians killed near police posts or in nearby streets during strikes, including reports of one Palestinian killed near a police post and three killed in a vehicle on a nearby street.
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web search NEUTRAL — Medics said an Israeli strike killed one Palestinian near a police post and another at a tent encampment in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said it killed a militant who p…
https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in/2026/05/18/israeli…
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web search NEUTRAL — At least 50 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials and first responders say. Nine people died in the morning when a missile hit a police s…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g28g02ng2o
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web search NEUTRAL — A second Israeli air strike soon after targeted a vehicle on a nearby street, killing three, the medics said. Reuters video footage from the scene showed flames engulfing an apartment in a mostly bomb…
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2026/05/15/isra…
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“At least 10 others were wounded”
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While sources confirm that officers were wounded in the strike, the specific number 'at least 10' is not explicitly corroborated across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence; other sources mention 'several others'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Channel 10 (Hebrew: ערוץ עשר, romanized: Arutz Eser), formerly known as Israel 10 (Hebrew: ישראל 10, romanized: Yisra'el Eser), was an Israeli free-to-air television channel. Operating under the auspi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_10_(Israel)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
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“two missiles had hit a police post in the at-Twam area in northern Gaza”
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Two independent sources explicitly mention two missiles hitting a police post in the at-Twam area in northern Gaza/Jabalia.
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web search NEUTRAL — In a statement, the Gaza police directorate said two missiles had hit a police post in the at-Twam area in northern Gaza. “This is not an isolated incident, it’s part of the pattern that the Israeli m…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/23/five-police-officer…
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web search NEUTRAL — At approximately 11pm on Monday 21 March 2011, Israeli aircrafts fired two missiles at a police station in the At-Twam area in Jabalia town, in North Gaza District.The station was completely destroyed…
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/…
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web search NEUTRAL — At least 50 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials and first responders say. Nine people died in the morning when a missile hit a police s…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g28g02ng2o
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“the 10,000-strong police force in Gaza”
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Multiple sources (The Straits Times and another report) explicitly refer to the Gaza police force as being '10,000-strong'.
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web search NEUTRAL — The missile strike on a police post comes as the 10,000-strong police force in Gaza has emerged as a sticking point in talks to advance United States President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/23/five-police-officer…
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web search NEUTRAL — An Israeli strike killed five police officers in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, said a hospital and the Palestinian territory's police force, which operates under Hamas authority.
https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5276415-israeli-strike…
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web search NEUTRAL — Hamas' nearly 10,000 police officers have emerged as a sticking point in talks to advance U.S. President Donald Trump's plan for Gaza. Hamas wants them included in a new police force envisaged under t…
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/israeli-strik…
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“The war that Israel launched following the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas was halted by a ceasefire on October 10, 2025”
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Wikipedia and CNN both confirm that a ceasefire went into effect on October 10, 2025.
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web search NEUTRAL — October 2025 Israel–Hamas ceasefire agreement; (3 October 2025 – present). v · t ... "After Israel's war halted, who is clashing with Hamas in Gaza". Al ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Gaza_war_(3_Oc…
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web search NEUTRAL — The ceasefire went into effect on October 10, though there have been numerous attacks since, including the killing of 442 Palestinians by Israel. The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_peace_plan
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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 11, 2025 ... The Israeli military said that a ceasefire was now in effect in Gaza, as its forces pull back in accordance with the deal approved by the ...
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasef…
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“Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave has now killed at least 72,775 Palestinians”
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The specific figure of 72,775 is not corroborated by multiple sources. One source mentions a death toll climbing to 72,549, while another mentions 67,000. The claim is close to one source's data but not corroborated across multiple.
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web search NEUTRAL — At least 72 Palestinians were killed and more than 350 others injured in attacks across Gaza over the past 24 hours as Israel continues to intensify its aerial and ground offensive ahead of its immine…
https://www.euronews.com/2025/09/11/at-least-72-palestinians…
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web search NEUTRAL — Two years of Israeli attacks have killed at least 67,000 Palestinians. Thousands of other people are still under the rubble. That is about one out of every 33 people killed, or 3 percent of the pre-wa…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/7/two-years-of-israel…
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web search NEUTRAL — Two Palestinians were killed, and others were injured on Saturday in continued Israeli violations of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources. Medical officials reported that Yous…
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-two-palestinians-kil…
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“883 people killed since the ceasefire came into effect”
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One specific web search result states that since the ceasefire took effect, Israeli attacks have killed at least 883 Palestinians. No other independent source confirms this exact number.
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web search NEUTRAL — This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Gaza_war_(19_J…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 11, 2025 ... Since the ceasefire took effect, Israeli attacks have killed at least 883 Palestinians and injured 2648.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/11/how-many-times-has…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 11, 2026 ... All information updated for 4 – 10 March 2026 [1] Days 877 - 883 since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip ...
https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-repo…
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“The bodies of eight Palestinians, along with 29 wounded people, arrived at hospitals across Gaza in the past 48 hours”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to verify the arrival of eight bodies and 29 wounded people at hospitals in the past 48 hours.
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“Palestinian children in Gaza are suffering from an increase in skin infections due to the surge in pests, including rats, lice, fleas and mites”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding skin infections caused by pests among children in Gaza.
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“health teams are able to treat about 40 percent of the thousands of cases”
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