Israel has violated the Gaza Strip ceasefire on a near-daily basis since it came into effect in October last year [Getty/file photo]

An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, local health authorities said, in the latest deadly Israeli violation of the ceasefire reached in October 2025, amid a new push by mediators to bolster the agreement.

Medics said the airstrike targeted a group of people in Jaffa Street, near the Darraj neighbourhood in Gaza City, killing four people and wounding several others.

Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital confirmed the toll, saying the strike was carried out by an Israeli drone.

“Four martyrs and five wounded arrived at the hospital this morning after an Israeli drone fired two missiles at a group of civilians,” the hospital said in a statement.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the incident.

Despite a ceasefire being in effect, Israel has continued to launch near-daily strikes across Gaza, killing at least 715 people since the truce took hold on October 10, according to the territory’s health ministry.

Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip has killed at least 72,289 Palestinians since October 2023, in a military assault labelled as a genocidal by the UN, experts, and several world leaders.

Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian territory has spread famine, demolished most buildings, and displaced most of the territory’s population, in many cases numerous times.

A Hamas delegation met Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators in Cairo last week to give its initial response to a disarmament proposal presented to the group last month, two Egyptian sources and a Palestinian official said.

The group has told mediators it will not discuss giving up arms without guarantees that Israel will fully quit Gaza as laid out in a disarmament plan from US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace”, three sources told Reuters on Thursday.

Hamas’ disarmament is a sticking point in talks to implement Trump’s plan for the Palestinian enclave and cement the ceasefire.