Gaza police chief killed in IDF strike in Gaza City, Hamas says

In Gaza on 13 August 2026, an Israeli strike in Gaza City killed the city's police chief, according to Hamas. The IDF confirmed it killed a Hamas commander said to be the police chief. Egypt Today wrote that Israel killed two Palestinians, including the police chief, despite the ceasefire. The Jerusalem Post said the IDF struck a Hamas cell in southern Gaza, the second in two days since the Gaza deal pause.

In the West Bank, an Israeli settler siege of three Palestinian homes in Qusra entered its fourth day, according to Al Jazeera. The IDF ordered, then reversed, the evacuation of Palestinian homes, while Haaretz wrote that it removed Palestinian families as settlers resisted an army operation to end the siege. Press TV said a Gaza journalist died in Israeli imprisonment nearly three years after being jailed.