Israeli military operations across the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed at least six Palestinians, including a nine-year-old girl, according to Palestinian health officials. The deadliest incident, an airstrike on a metal workshop in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood, killed four people. Medics said Israeli gunfire directed at a tent encampment in the Al-Bureij refugee camp killed Tala Abu Matar, 9. A separate strike on a displacement camp in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis killed at least one person and wounded several others, including children. The attacks occurred despite a ceasefire that has been in place since October 2025.

The Israeli military confirmed striking what it described as “terrorist infrastructure” in Sabra, without providing further details. In a statement on social media, the Israel Defense Forces accused Hamas of a “flagrant violation” of the truce, alleging that militants were operating a weapons production site. The military said it was unaware of the incident that killed the girl in Al-Bureij. It separately reported that its forces had killed at least two Hamas fighters in northern Gaza since Thursday, whom it accused of planning attacks on Israeli troops. Palestinian witnesses and medical sources, however, described civilian casualties and damage to makeshift shelters.

The violence unfolded as Hamas leaders visited Cairo for talks on implementing the second phase of a peace plan promoted by US President Donald Trump. According to sources close to the negotiations, the discussions cover Hamas’s disarmament and the withdrawal of Israeli forces, but no breakthrough has been achieved. Viewed from Washington, the administration has sought to lock in the ceasefire framework, yet the persistent exchanges of fire underscore its fragility. Since the truce took effect, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to Gaza’s health ministry, while four Israeli soldiers have died in militant attacks, according to Israeli tallies.

Nearly all of Gaza’s two million residents remain displaced, living in tent camps or damaged buildings along a narrow coastal strip under Hamas control. The war was triggered by the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, which killed around 1,200 people, according to Israeli figures. Israel’s subsequent military campaign has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, the Gaza health ministry reports, a figure that includes both combatants and civilians but is considered broadly reliable by UN agencies. The ceasefire has halted large-scale combat but has not stopped near-daily Israeli strikes or militant activity, leaving the territory in a state of protracted humanitarian crisis.