According to Gazan sources, the three people killed earlier Friday in a targeted vehicle strike in central Gaza are members of Hamas's naval police. The identities have not been released. The IDF has not commented.
Gazan sources now specify that the three people killed in Friday evening's precision vehicle strike in central Gaza are members of Hamas's naval police. The development, reported around 20:49 Jerusalem time, adds unit affiliation to the earlier identification of the victims as Hamas police officers — a detail first published by The Zioneer at 19:50, citing a security-affiliated source who described them as Hamas police officers without naming their unit. The strike itself was first reported at 17:47 Jerusalem, when initial accounts spoke of multiple wounded, then one fatality, then three killed on Salah al-Din Road in the Al-Maghazi camp. By 19:50, the victims were confirmed as Hamas police; the current update narrows their role to naval police. The IDF has not commented on the strike or the victims' affiliation.
As The Zioneer reported at 17:47, the strike targeted a jeep in central Gaza's Al-Mughazi camp and was followed by a second explosion in the same area. By 17:47, the death toll had risen to three and families had been notified. The identification of the victims as Hamas police officers emerged two hours later, at 19:50, from a security-affiliated source. The current attribution to naval police comes from Gazan sources, broadening the corroboration slightly but still lacking independent Israeli confirmation.
The vehicle strike is the latest in a series of targeted attacks in Gaza this week. The Zioneer reported on a similar strike on a motorcycle in Khan Younis on Tuesday, and on a vehicle strike in western Gaza City on Thursday. Israeli operations against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives have continued overnight and during the day, as reported on Saturday and Sunday.
The identities of the three killed have not been released. The claim that they were naval police rests on Gazan sources and has not been independently corroborated by Israeli military spokespeople or other external parties.
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