Israeli strikes killed at least four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said, as Hamas leaders met mediators in Cairo to discuss ways to reinvigorate a fragile six-month-old US-brokered truce.
Medics said an Israeli strike killed at least three people near the Salahudeen road in the central Gaza Strip, and another killed one person near a hospital in the city of Deir Al-Balah further south.
Violence in Gaza has persisted despite an October 2025 ceasefire.
The death toll in the Gaza Strip has continued to rise, reaching 72,601, mostly women and children, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in October 2023.
At least 172,419 others have also been injured.
The toll remains incomplete, as many victims remain trapped under rubble, inaccessible to ambulance and rescue crews.
Medical sources said on Thursday that during the past 24 hours, two bodies and eight injured individuals were brought to hospitals in Gaza.
Since the ceasefire went into effect on Oct. 11, 2025, the number of those killed and injured has reached 824 and 2,316, respectively.
At least 764 bodies have also been recovered from under the rubble.
On Thursday, a Hamas official said a delegation from the group arrived in Cairo two days earlier for meetings with mediators over US President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan.
Sources close to the talks said efforts to push Israel and Hamas into the implementation of a second phase have made little progress.
According to the plan, Israel is meant to pull back further in the second phase as a transitional authority assumes control in Gaza and a multinational security force is deployed.
Hamas is supposed to be disarmed, under the plan, as reconstruction begins.
