An Israeli air strike on a police post run by Hamas in northern Gaza has killed at least seven people, including a senior officer, according to health and police officials.

Witnesses told the BBC that an Israeli drone fired four missiles at the post near a busy market in the Jabalia area. The Hamas-run interior ministry condemned the attack as a "massacre," stating that Col Mohammed Marwan Salem, head of the local police station, and several other officers were among those killed.

An Israeli military official confirmed the strike, saying it targeted "terrorists."

Additional casualties were reported in southern Gaza on Tuesday, where an air strike killed a man and injured three others in the Khan Younis area, according to medics who spoke to Reuters. In nearby Rafah, a 10-year-old boy named Muataz Abu Shaar was also killed by Israeli gunfire.

Both Israel and Hamas have accused each other of near-daily violations of a ceasefire that took effect in the Palestinian territory last October. Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry reports that at least 1,110 people have been killed by Israeli fire since then, while the Israeli military says four of its soldiers have been killed in Palestinian attacks.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza following an earlier attack, during which more than 73,230 people have died, according to Gaza's health ministry.

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