Meanwhile, more than 20,000 patients are waiting to be evacuated as the Rafah crossing will partially reopen on Wednesday.
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 13 Palestinians, including two children, a pregnant woman and nine police officers in war-torn Gaza.
On Sunday, an attack hit a house in the Nuseirat urban refugee camp in central Gaza, killing four people, including a couple in their 30s and their 10-year-old son, according to nearby Al-Aqsa Hospital.
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The woman was pregnant with twins, the hospital said. The fourth person who died, a 15-year-old neighbor, was taken to Al Awda hospital in Nuseirat.
“We were sleeping and got up when a missile hit us. The attack was strong,” said Mahmoud al-Muhtaseb, a neighbor. “There was no prior warning.”
Another attack hit a police vehicle in Philadelphia’s south-north corridor, at the entrance to the central city of az-Zawayda, the Interior Ministry said.
The bombing killed nine police officers, including Col. Iyad Ab Yousef, a senior police official in central Gaza, the ministry said.
Al-Aqsa Hospital, which received the bodies, confirmed the number of victims. Another 14 people were injured, he added.
The ministry said it “condemns the heinous crime committed by the Israeli occupation this afternoon when it bombed a police vehicle… Officers and staff were carrying out their duties by monitoring markets and maintaining security and order during the holy month of Ramadan.”
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on any of the attacks.
Sunday’s deaths were the latest among Palestinians in the coastal enclave since a “ceasefire” agreement between Israel and Hamas attempted to stop Israel’s more than two-year-old genocidal war on Gaza.
While the most intense fighting has subsided, Israeli attacks still occur almost daily. Aside from Israeli airstrikes, its forces frequently fire on Palestinians near areas controlled by the Israeli military. More than 650 Palestinians have been killed since October 10, 2025, according to Gaza health officials.
Rafah crossing reportedly to reopen
Israel has announced it will partially reopen the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Wednesday, ending a two-week closure that has deepened an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the besieged territory.
The Israeli military body that oversees civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory, COGAT, said the crossing would resume operations on March 18 for limited passenger movement in both directions, with no cargo allowed.
Entry and exit will require prior Israeli security clearance, coordination with Egypt and supervision by the European Union border mission that was deployed there in early February.
The announcement comes as more than 20,000 sick and injured Palestinians, including approximately 4,000 cancer patients and 4,500 children, remain on waiting lists for medical treatment not available in Gaza.
Of those, nearly 440 cases are classified as immediately life-threatening.
Israel closed the crossing on February 28, the same day it and the United States launched attacks on Iran, citing “security” reasons.
The World Health Organization’s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean warned this week that only about 200 trucks a day were entering Gaza, far below the estimated daily need of 600.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, almost half of all essential medicines are out of stock, while two-thirds of medical supplies have run out.
Mohammed Salah, founder of the NGO Tech from Palestine, speaking from Deir el-Balah, told Al Jazeera that living conditions had deteriorated dramatically since the war against Iran began, and that prices for basic supplies had “doubled or more than doubled”.
Meanwhile, a sandstorm recently swept through Gaza, destroying makeshift shelters for tens of thousands of Palestinians who had already been displaced by more than two years of war.
