Gaza City, Aug 29 (V7N) – Israeli strikes killed three Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, Palestinian authorities said, the latest deadly attacks despite international appeals to advance a peace plan under a US-brokered ceasefire that has been in effect since October 2025.
The civil defence agency, which serves as a rescue service under Hamas, said the bodies of three people were recovered after strikes in the town of Al-Qarara, east of Khan Yunis. Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis identified the victims as three members of the same family—two aged 42 and one aged 28. An Israeli military spokesperson told AFP the military was looking into the report.
Israel has continued carrying out strikes across Gaza despite the ceasefire, maintaining its stated objective of eliminating threats from Hamas following the October 7, 2023, attacks. Since the ceasefire took effect, Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,303 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.
Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza under the "Board of Peace" established by US President Donald Trump to implement the deal, told the UN Security Council on Thursday that ongoing deadly strikes make it difficult for Gaza's residents to feel the ceasefire, which he said was still technically holding.
"Every use of force that does not answer an immediate threat, and every incident that the deconfliction mechanism was not asked to resolve, costs this process something very hard to buy back," Mladenov said.
He also noted that Hamas has not fulfilled its commitments, including on disarmament, despite promising late last month to do so. The group has agreed to "hand over their weapons and to transfer full governing authority to a transitional administration recognized by the United Nations," according to recent briefings to the Security Council.
Meanwhile, tensions have escalated over kite-flying from Gaza into Israel. Defence Minister Israel Katz warned that the deadline to halt the practice had passed, declaring: "Any launch constitutes an act of terrorism in itself, and we will treat it as such". In previous years, kites and balloons laden with explosives have been flown from Gaza, though the latest kites did not contain explosives.
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