CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, ‌health officials said, as mediators prepared for further ceasefire talks in Cairo to safeguard a US-brokered peace plan for the tiny war-ravaged Palestinian enclave._x000D_
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Medics said an Israeli airstrike killed a woman in the town of Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip, while another ​strike killed one person in the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp._x000D_
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Later on Monday, an Israeli airstrike targeted the ​rooftop of a building in Gaza City, killing two people, a medic and his â son, health officials said._x000D_
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The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the incidents._x000D_
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The violence comes as Nikolay Mladenov, US ​President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace envoy for Gaza, was expected to arrive in Cairo later on Monday, sources ​close to the mediation effort said, a day after Hamas delivered its response to a 15-point blueprint he had presented to them in recent weeks._x000D_
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The sources said Hamas and other factions had agreed on all the points except Hamas disarmament, which the group links ​to Israeli withdrawal and a political track to negotiate Palestinian statehood._x000D_
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An October 2025 truce brokered by Trump has ​failed to halt Israeli attacks in Gaza or to secure the disarmament of Hamas fighters._x000D_
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Israel and Hamas remain deadlocked over how ‌to proceed â with the next stage of Trump’s Gaza plan, which involves Hamas laying down its arms and Israeli withdrawals._x000D_
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Hamas said on Monday that leaders of Palestinian factions who held discussions with mediators — Egypt, Qatar and Turkey — over the past week in Cairo had stressed the need for Israel to “fully and unconditionally comply with the terms of the ceasefire ​agreement, in its entirety and ​without fragmentation”._x000D_
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Hamas blames the â absence of a full agreement to end the Gaza conflict on Israel’s refusal to fulfil first-phase obligations agreed in October, which halted major fighting but did not end ​Israeli attacks. Israel says its strikes are intended to thwart imminent attacks by Hamas ​and other fighters._x000D_
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Israeli â strikes in Gaza have killed more than 990 people since the truce, health officials say, while Israel says four soldiers have been killed by militants in that period._x000D_
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Israel insists Hamas must disarm, cede power in Gaza and play no â role in ​the future of the enclave._x000D_
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Israel still occupies more than half of ​Gaza, where it has ordered residents out and demolished remaining structures._x000D_
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Nearly the entire population of more than 2 million Palestinians now lives in a ​narrow strip along the coast, mainly in tents and damaged buildings, under Hamas’ de facto control.
