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3 June 2026

The UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory condemns Israeli forces’ routine targeting of police personnel in Gaza in repeated attacks. Since January 2026, UN Human Rights has recorded at least twelve attacks against police, killing at least 53 civilians, including 35 police personnel, 5 boys, and 1 woman. Four attacks were recorded in May alone, killing 12 policemen.

Israeli attacks against police personnel have been reported during ordinary law enforcement operations, including directing traffic and patrolling streets and markets. The pattern demonstrated disregard for civilian lives, including that of police personnel, with several strikes taking place in crowded areas, killing, in addition to police personnel, internally displaced persons, children, and prison inmates.

On 23 May, an Israeli strike struck a police checkpoint in the Al Tawam area, Gaza City, killing at least five police officers and two others, including a boy. On 24 April 2026, an Israeli drone struck a police vehicle carrying out a law enforcement operation in the Beer 19 area of Al Mawasi camp, west of Khan Younis — a crowded encampment of displaced Palestinians. The attack killed four policemen, as well as three other men and a nine-year-old boy from nearby tents. It occurred at the time of sunset prayers, when many Palestinians were moving from their tents to a nearby mosque.

On 31 January 2026, an Israeli airstrike hit Ash Sheikh Radwan Police Station, northwest of Gaza City, killing at least 11 Palestinians, including five police officers, one of them a woman. Six more people, including a boy, were also killed in the airstrike, including inmates and people visiting the station for services.

The pattern of attacks raises concerns that Israeli forces apply no distinction between police personnel and fighters belonging to armed groups in Gaza. However, under international humanitarian law, police personnel are civilians who are protected against attack, unless and for such time as they directly participate in hostilities. Attacks targeting police personnel simply for performing ordinary law enforcement and policing functions would amount to war crimes.

The attacks also fit a broader pattern of Israel’s systematic failure to take constant care to spare civilians and civilian objects in its conduct of hostilities in Gaza. Even in the event that one or several of these attacks targeted fighters, the location and timing of the attacks in crowded areas and the use of weapons with wide-area effects indicate that Israeli forces have failed to take feasible precautions to avoid and minimize incidental loss of civilian life.

“As an occupying power, Israel has obligations under international humanitarian law to ensure, as far as possible, that Palestinians have public order and safety. Instead, the systematic targeting and dismantling of public governance institutions has created chaos with devastating impact on civilians,” said Ajith Sunghay, Head of UN Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. “Nearly eight months have passed since the announcement of a ceasefire, and there is no end in sight for the killings, the turmoil, and the misery.”