Israeli strikes kill three in Gaza
Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including two members of the Hamas run police force, ?health officials said, in violence that underscored the fragility of a US brokered ceasefire.
Medics said an air strike killed one person in the Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, while another killed the head of the criminal police force in Khan Younis, Wessam Abdel Hadi, and his aide, according to Gaza's Hamas run interior ministry.
Reuters has previously reported that Israel has heightened its attacks on Gaza's Hamas-run police force that the militants have used to re-establish governance in areas under their control.
The Israeli military didn't ?immediately comment on either incident.
Violence in Gaza has persisted despite an October 2025 ceasefire, with Israel conducting almost daily attacks.
At least 850 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire took effect, local medics say, while Israel says militants have killed four of its soldiers over the same period.
Israel and Hamas have blamed each other for ceasefire violations.
More than 72,500 Palestinians have been killed since the Gaza war started in October 2023, Gaza health authorities say, most of them civilians.
Israel deported on Sunday two foreign activists seized from a Gaza-bound flotilla, in what a rights group representing them described as a "punitive attack" on a civilian mission.
Saif Abu Keshek, a Spanish national of Palestinian origin, and Brazilian Thiago Avila were among dozens of activists aboard a flotilla intercepted by the Israeli navy in international waters off the coast of Greece on April 30.
The pair were seized and brought to Israel for questioning, while the others were taken to the Greek island of Crete and released.
"Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Avila, from the provocation flotilla, were deported today from Israel" following an investigation, the Israeli foreign ministry posted on X on Sunday.
Israel would "not allow any breach" of the blockade on Gaza, it added.
The ministry statement did not mention its earlier allegations of the two being linked to a "terrorist organisation", over which they were interrogated in Israel.
Spain, Brazil and the United Nations had all called for the men's swift release after their detention drew widespread outrage.
On Wednesday, an Israeli court rejected an appeal contesting the pair's detention.