Israeli strikes kill at least four, including children, across Gaza Strip
Israeli airstrikes killed at least four people, including children, across Gaza despite an ongoing ceasefire agreement. The attacks occurred as Hamas officials met with mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey in Cairo to discuss implementation of the ceasefire's second phase.
Israeli military operations across the Gaza Strip resulted in multiple casualties on Thursday, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health, which documented six bodies and 34 injured individuals admitted to hospitals within a 24-hour period. The fatalities included four newly killed persons alongside one death from earlier injuries and one recovered body.
In Khan Younis in southern Gaza, an adult and an eight-year-old child were killed in an airstrike targeting a tent settlement housing people displaced by the conflict. The attack struck an encampment established for civilians whose homes had been destroyed, affecting a population where approximately 60 percent of residents have lost their dwellings.
A separate strike on Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza killed an 18-month-old infant when an airstrike hit a residential structure, with eight additional people sustaining injuries. In Gaza City, another airstrike killed a Palestinian man on a bicycle and wounded ten others. A Wednesday evening attack on Shati refugee camp in Gaza City damaged makeshift tent settlements surrounding a targeted building, displacing approximately 35 families according to reporting from the scene.
The military operations coincided with ceasefire negotiations in Cairo involving Hamas representatives and mediators from Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey. Discussions focused on implementing the second phase of a ceasefire agreement that took effect approximately ten months prior. Negotiations have encountered obstacles regarding Israel's military withdrawal from Gaza and cessation of operations, as well as Hamas's refusal to disarm according to Israeli requirements.
According to reports, Hamas indicated it would provide a constructive response to ceasefire proposals while seeking amendments to protect Palestinian government employees' rights and proposing that weapons be managed by Palestinian authorities rather than transferred to Israel. The October 2025 ceasefire agreement stipulates that 600 trucks of humanitarian aid should enter Gaza daily, though Israeli authorities have continued restricting supply deliveries into the territory.
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