Israel assassinated a police official in Gaza on Thursday, the Quds News Network reported, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the October 2025 ceasefire deal despite President Trump recently announcing that a deal had been reached on Hamas disarmament.
The Quds report said that the official, Col. Jamal Abu Kumeil, was the chief of police in the Gaza governorate and was hit by an Israeli airstrike while traveling in a vehicle in southwestern Gaza City. Two people traveling with him were injured.
Gaza’s Interior Ministry strongly condemned the Israeli strike and noted that it followed a pattern of escalated Israeli attacks targeting the police on the Hamas-controlled side of Gaza, an ever-shrinking strip of land. The ministry said the attacks on the police force are part of an effort to “create chaos within Palestinian society.”
“This unjustified crime comes within the framework of the Israeli enemy’s ongoing violations of the ceasefire agreement, at a time when all parties are striving to uphold the agreement,” the Interior Ministry said.
“This comes less than three weeks after the assassination of the North Gaza Governorate Police Chief, and before that, the assassination of the Director of the Jabalia Camp Police Station in the northern Gaza Strip, along with six officers and personnel,” the ministry added.
At least one other Palestinian was killed in Gaza on Thursday by an Israeli strike west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, the person was targeted by a drone while traveling on a motorcycle, and several other people were injured in the strike.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update, released about midday Gaza time, that it recorded the Israeli killing of one Palestinian and the injury of seven over the previous 24-hour period. Since the so-called ceasefire deal was signed in October 2025, the IDF has killed at least 1,260 Palestinians and wounded 1,260.
