CAIRO, June 14 - Health authorities reported that Israeli strikes and gunfire resulted in the deaths of at least six Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. Medics said an airstrike attributed to Israeli forces killed at least four people near Al-Yeman Al-Saeed Hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp, located in the northern part of the enclave. Two additional fatalities occurred in separate shooting incidents in Khan Younis in the south and in Gaza City.
The Israeli military had not issued an immediate statement regarding these specific incidents.
Diplomatic push amid fresh violence
The outbreaks of violence came as mediators from Egypt, Qatar and Turkey concluded week-long talks with Hamas and other Palestinian factions focused on implementing the second phase of a U.S.-brokered Gaza plan. That phase, according to the blueprint presented by the mediators and referred to as the work of Trump’s Board of Peace, would require Hamas to disarm and Israeli forces to withdraw from Gaza.
On Sunday, Hamas and allied factions said they had submitted a written response to the 15-point plan but did not release details of their reply. Sources close to the negotiations told mediators that the factions had accepted 14 of the 15 proposed items, with the remaining point relating to the disarmament of Hamas.
Stalled truce and continuing fatalities
An October 2025 truce brokered by U.S. efforts has not succeeded in stopping Israeli strikes in Gaza or in achieving the disarmament of Hamas militants, the account of events in recent months indicates. Health officials report that more than 950 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza since the truce took effect. During the same period, Israeli authorities say four soldiers have been killed by militants.
Hamas attributes the lack of a comprehensive agreement to an Israeli failure to adhere to first-phase obligations agreed in October, a set of understandings that halted major combat but did not prevent further Israeli attacks. Israel, for its part, maintains that its strikes are intended to preempt imminent attacks by Hamas and other armed groups.
Persistent impasse over disarmament
The central outstanding issue remains the disarmament of Hamas. According to sources involved in the talks, Hamas conditions any full disarmament on the initiation of a political track toward establishing a Palestinian state. Israel insists that Hamas must disarm, surrender governing power in Gaza, and have no role in the enclave's future political arrangements.
With mediators reporting near-complete agreement on the bulk of the 15-point blueprint but one critical item unresolved, the situation remains fragile and the immediate prospects for preventing further violence are uncertain.