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CAIRO: Israeli strikes killed at least four people, including two children, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said, as mediators held new talks with Hamas leaders to work towards full implementation of a US-brokered Gaza peace plan. Medics said an Israeli airstrike on a tent encampment in Khan Yunis, in the south of the enclave, killed a man and an eight-year-old girl.
In the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, an Israeli airstrike hit a house killing an 18-month-old child and wounding at least eight people, medics said. Later on Thursday, an Israeli strike targeted a Palestinian man on a bike near a tent encampment housing displaced families in Gaza City, killing one person and wounding 10 others.
The latest deaths add to a toll of more than 1,200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, killed by Israeli attacks since the ceasefire took effect, according to Gaza health officials.
Hamas does not usually disclose its losses. The truce halted full-scale fighting but has not ended near-daily Israeli strikes. Four Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza over the same period.
