Jerusalem.- An Israeli army bombardment against a vehicle in central Gaza killed two men who have been identified as members of the enclave’s internal security apparatus, which reports to the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, the Strip’s Interior Ministry reported.
“The director of the Internal Security Service of the Central Governorate, Colonel Wael Musa al-Ladawi (44), was killed along with Major Ramez Tawfiq Abu Zureiq (49), as a result of an Israeli airstrike on their vehicle in Deir al-Balah,” states the statement shared by the Interior Ministry.
Both officers belonged to the Gazan Internal Security, a branch of the police apparatus of the Interior Ministry that governed Hamas, although the Islamist group said it had dissolved its government on July 6.
The vehicle was traveling through the Al Baraka area, in the south of Deir al Balah, when an Israeli Army drone bombed it, according to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.
Subsequently, the Palestinian Red Crescent assured this agency that its ambulance teams were transporting two bodies to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
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The attack comes just one day after Israel killed the Gazan police chief in the north of the enclave, Abdul Nasser Muhammad al Maqadma.
Israel has killed at least 53 police officers (in a count up to Saturday that includes Al Maqadma, but not those who died today) since the ceasefire came into effect in October 2025, according to the count by the Gazan Interior Ministry.
“Sowing chaos in the Gaza Strip”
These attacks, the Interior Ministry asserted on Saturday, are part of an attempt by Israel to “sow chaos in the Gaza Strip” by targeting its internal security apparatus.
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At the beginning of June, the UN already denounced these attacks against security personnel in Gaza as routine and even directed against police officers who were directing traffic or on patrol in streets and markets.
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“Israel, as an occupying power, actually has the obligation under international law to ensure public and civil order for the Palestinians living under occupation,” stated the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Palestinian territories, Mayy el Sheij, at the time.
“Attacking them, unless they participate in direct attacks or hostilities, would constitute a war crime,” the spokesperson concluded in this regard.
