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Israel's latest strikes said to kill 12 in Gaza, including Hamas police officers
2026-07-16
[IsraelTimes] Local media says couple and young daughter killed in strike on house; military officials says target was terror operative; Morocco signs on to join post-war international stabilization force

Israeli Arclight airstrike
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s killed at least a dozen people in Gazoo
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over the past two days, local health officials said on Wednesday.

The latest violence came as Morocco signed on to be part of an international military stabilization force in post-war Gaza, and as Hamas
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leaders wrapped up another round of truce talks in Cairo, as part of US President Donald Trump
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’s Gaza peace plan, which halted the war last October.

Media outlets in Gaza affiliated with Hamas reported that three people were killed overnight in an Israeli strike on a house in Deir al-Balah.

According to the reports, the three were a married couple — Omar Abu Qasem and Asma Abu Qasem — and their six-year-old daughter, Habiba.

Their three-year-old son, Sami, survived but was injured, medics said.

An Israeli military official told The Times of Israel that the strike targeted a Hamas operative.

On Tuesday, a woman and six coppers were among those killed in an airstrike on a cop shoppe in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, hospital officials said. A man died in the bombing of a tent camp in Khan Younis in the south, Nasser Hospital officials said. And Israeli forces shot and killed a child in the Muwasi area outside the southernmost city of Rafah, according to hospital officials.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strikes in central and southern Gaza. In a statement on the attack in Jabaliya, it claimed that four of the slain coppers were Hamas operatives.

One of the officers, Col. Mohamad Marwan Salem, was a senior police commander and head of the Jabaliya cop shoppe, the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said.

Hamas, which ruled Gaza for years, maintains an armed wing as well as police and security services that are overseen by its Interior Ministry. Throughout the war, Israel has targeted local police. Israel’s military has said it considers cop shoppes legitimate targets if they’re "being used to advance military activities, or if those present are military operatives involved in advancing terrorist activities."

It did not say what military activities it believed were taking place at the Jabaliya cop shoppe. Hamas says the police force is engaged in maintaining law and order.

MOROCCO SIGNS ON TO JOIN STABILIZATION FORCE
Trump’s Gaza peace plan envisions, in its second phase, allowing a US-backed Paleostinian technocratic committee to assume power from Hamas, the deployment of an international security force, and the start of the reconstruction of Gaza, which has been devastated by the war.

Morocco signed an agreement Wednesday to participate in the International Stabilization Force (ISF) for Gaza, state media reported.

The agreement was signed in Rabat at a meeting attended by Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, senior defense officials, and Board of Peace envoy for ​Gaza Nickolay ​Mladenov, and with a delegation including the commander of the ISF, the state news agency MAP said.

The agreement "reflects the shared determination to contribute, through concrete humanitarian and security actions, to the establishment of a climate of peace and security in the region," MAP quoted a statement from the Moroccan defense administration as saying.

Trump’s Board of Peace and ISF leadership welcomed Morocco’s decision to join the initiative, citing its planned deployment of senior military officers, gendarmerie and police personnel, as well as the creation of a military field hospital, MAP said.

Morocco has been listed among ISF contributing countries since January, so the agreement appeared to be more of a formality.

While three other countries — Albania, Kazakhstan and Kosovo — have also agreed to contribute troops to the ISF — Morocco is slated to be the first of them to actually deploy troops in Gaza, officials familiar with the Board of Peace’s plans have told The Times of Israel.

The Board of Peace envisions Moroccan troops will be tasked with securing the borders of a humanitarian pilot zone that the Board of Peace aims to establish in the area of the flattened southern Gaza city of Rafah, the officials said.

But there is no timeline for when construction of that humanitarian zone will actually begin, with a senior Arab official familiar with the matter saying no major progress is expected until after the October Israeli elections, since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has become increasingly reticent to cooperate with any Gaza relief projects as the vote approaches.

Among the steps that Israel has dragged its feet on advancing has been the signing of Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with each ISF contributor country, in order to establish the legal guardrails of foreign military personnel stationed abroad. ISF troops can’t deploy without those agreements being signed.

Another source familiar with the matter said ground is unlikely to break on the humanitarian pilot zone until early 2027, meaning the ISF won’t deploy before then regardless.

In the meantime, small delegations from ISF contributing countries are arriving in Israel and operating out of a base in the country’s south.

Hamas leaders wrapped up another round of truce talks in Cairo on Tuesday. The discussions — mediated by Egypt, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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and Qatar
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— were aimed at implementing the second phase of Trump’s Gaza peace plan.

The talks included the disarmament of Hamas — which it has so far refused to do — and the Israeli military’s withdrawal from the strip, according to sources close to the talks, who said there had been little progress amid deep distrust between the sides.

IDF says it killed Hamas terrorist who abducted bodies of brigade commander, 2 soldiers on Oct. 7
[IsraelTimes] A Hamas terrorist who took part in the abduction of Col. Asaf Hamami, the commander of the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade, and two of his soldiers, Staff Sgt. Tomer Ahimas and Sgt. Kiril Brodski, during the October 7, 2023, onslaught, was killed in a strike in the Gaza Strip yesterday, the IDF announces.

The strike in southern Gaza killed Hassam Shafai, a member of Hamas’s East Khan Younis Battalion, according to the military.

On October 7, Shafai raided Kibbutz Nirim, where Hamami and his team were killed battling the Hamas invasion, and took part in abducting their bodies.

The military says that Shafai, during the war and recently, advanced attacks and therefore he “posed a threat to our forces operating in the Gaza Strip.”

Hamas returned the body of Hamami in November 2025 as part of a hostage deal. The bodies of Ahimas and Brodski were recovered in military operations in Gaza in 2024.

2 Hamas Nukhba commanders killed in Tuesday strike in north Gaza — IDF
[IsraelTimes] Two Hamas commanders in the terror group’s Nukhba Force were killed in an Israeli strike in the northern Gaza Strip last night, the military announces.

The IDF says the strike killed Ali Shamlakh, a deputy Nukhba company commander, who was advancing attacks on troops and Israeli civilians, and Nasser Louh, a Nukhba cell commander in Hamas’s Sabra Battalion.

“The terrorists posed an immediate threat to our forces operating in the area and were eliminated in a precise aerial strike,” the military adds.
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Asaf Hamami 11/04/2025 Israel hands over bodies of 45 Palestinians after Hamas returns remains of 3 hostages; Hamas might hand over only heavy weapons

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