9 Gaza Police Officers Killed... Warning of Uprising in the West Bank
Despite ongoing political efforts to advance the second phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in the devastated Palestinian sector, 11 Palestinians were killed and others injured in three separate Israeli attacks. Nine of the victims fell in a drone strike on the headquarters of the Civil Police in the Gaza Governorate today.
Coinciding with the strike on the police headquarters, which was condemned by Hamas authorities and described as a brutal massacre against members of the Civil Police in Gaza, a Palestinian was killed in an attack targeting a motorcycle in the Nuseirat camp. Another Palestinian was killed and two others were injured by Israeli occupation fire in Beit Lahiya in the northern part of the sector. Earlier, occupation forces killed seven Palestinians in a strike on displacement camps in the Gaza port area, an attack that occurred yesterday and which the Israeli military justified as targeting Hamas military leadership.
On another front, Palestinian Authority Minister of Land Affairs, Alaa Al-Tamimi, warned that the Israeli occupation authorities’ reliance on unilateral measures to register land and facilitate its annexation by settlers in the occupied West Bank since 1967 would lead to a new intifada if the international community does not move to “hold occupation leaders accountable and rein in their settlers.”
He pointed out that the continued repercussions of undermining the Palestinian economy through the withholding of clearance funds and the deployment of military checkpoints, along with the accumulation of violations over decades—not just since the October 7 attack—are the main causes of the current tension and are bringing the region closer to an explosion.
Meanwhile, France and Germany condemned the statements of Israel’s far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who called for the killing of dozens of Palestinians daily in Gaza.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot also stated that “what is happening today—violations against Palestinians by settlers in the West Bank—is truly shameful and should disgust us all,” adding, “For this reason, we have imposed sanctions on Minister Ben-Gvir for making unacceptable and inhumane remarks.”
The French minister hinted at imposing additional sanctions on Israeli settlers in light of their attacks in the occupied West Bank, noting that a group of them has been besieging a Palestinian village for about two weeks, preventing the delivery of basic supplies.
