Israeli strikes kill seven in Gaza, health officials say

CAIRO, April 11 (Reuters) - Two ‌Israeli airstrikes ​hit ​Gaza on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring several others, officials from Gaza's health ‌ministry said.

An airstrike hit a police checkpoint in ⁠Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip early on Saturday, killing ‌at least six, while a ‌second airstrike hit Beit Lahiya, killing at least one, said the officials.

It was not immediately clear how many ​of those killed in the first strike were police members.

The Israeli military said that the strike in Bureij ⁠had been carried out after members of the militant group Hamas approached the ​yellow line nL1N3YO0RL demarcating the half of Gaza occupied by Israel. It did not immediately comment ​on the strike in Beit Lahiya.

Israel ‌has repeatedly shot at people in areas around the yellow line since the ceasefire deal ⁠was struck in October, often accusing militants of trying to cross the line or attack troops.

A series of Israeli strikes has ⁠killed dozens of Hamas-led police force members since October, according to ​medics and police sources. Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 25 people in Gaza this week.

Israel and Hamas reached a U.S.-brokered deal ‌last October that was meant to halt violence in the Palestinian territory.

Since then, Israeli attacks ‌have killed at least 700 people in Gaza, according to ⁠health officials there. Militant ‌attacks have killed four ​soldiers there, according to Israel.

(Reporting by Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Hatem Maher, and Pesha Magid; Editing by Sam ‌Holmes)

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