Israeli strikes kill three in Gaza as ceasefire talks continue

Israeli strikes killed three people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said, as mediators worked to advance a U.S.-brokered truce. Medics said an Israeli strike on a house in Moghrabi Street in Gaza City killed one person. The Israeli military told Reuters it struck a militant.

Two other people were killed in separate airstrikes in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on those incidents.

Ceasefire talks The violence occurred during week-long talks between mediators Egypt, Qatar and Turkey and Hamas and other Palestinian factions on implementing the second phase of President Donald Trump's Gaza plan. That phase would involve Hamas disarming and Israel withdrawing its forces.

In a Thursday statement, senior Hamas official Hussam Badran said the talks had achieved real progress and called on mediators to compel Israel to stop truce violations. Badran did not elaborate on the nature of the progress. Two Egyptian sources said the current round of talks ended inconclusively, with disarmament the main sticking point.

Aside from that issue, factions including Hamas agreed on 14 points of a 15-point blueprint presented by Trump's Board of Peace, the sources said. A Palestinian official said demands to decommission Hamas arms and infrastructure emerged as a new obstacle on Wednesday.

Hamas continues to link full disarmament to launching a political track toward a Palestinian state, two of the four sources said. Israeli strikes have killed more than 950 people since the truce, health officials say, while Israel says four soldiers have been killed by militants in that period.