Israeli strikes kill 8 in Gaza overnight despite US-brokered disarmament deal

Overnight strikes kill eight

Israeli forces struck several residential buildings across the Gaza Strip overnight Saturday to Sunday, killing at least eight people, according to Gaza's Civil Defense. The attacks came despite a ceasefire and disarmament agreement brokered by the US-led Board of Peace and announced Thursday evening. Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal detailed the casualties: an Israeli military helicopter hit an apartment south of Deir al-Balah, killing a man and a woman and wounding several others. In Gaza City's old quarter, Israeli troops opened fire, killing one person and injuring others. A third hit the Al-Hams family home northwest of Khan Younis. Civil Defence also reported strikes on an apartment in Gaza City and on another west of the city, where an elderly man and a child died. The incidents set out individually do not add up to the overall figure, and tallies differed between outlets, with Al Jazeera reporting seven killed in the preceding round of strikes.

Three people, including a child, were killed after an Israeli strike targeted an apartment belonging to the Al-Hams family northwest of Khan Younis.

The overnight deaths followed eight others killed on Saturday, bringing the 24-hour toll to 16.

Saturday's toll and hospital attack

On Saturday, Israeli strikes killed eight people across Gaza, according to Civil Defense and health officials. One attack hit a medical supplies warehouse at al-Aqsa hospital, destroying two of the facility's four medicine storage units and severely damaging the remaining two, along with a mobile clinic. Gaza's health ministry reported the damage, and AFP journalists at the scene described a large crater and people searching through debris among scattered medicines.

The building served as a hideout for Hamas terrorists, who stored their weapons there.

The military added that it took prior measures to warn residents. The strike occurred just hours after the US-brokered agreement was announced.

Recovery of 112 bodies in Sabra

Separately, Gaza's Civil Defense completed a two-week search operation in the Sabra neighborhood south of Gaza City, recovering the remains of 112 people from collapsed buildings. The agency said it found bodies or body parts after 136 hours of digging. The operation highlights the scale of destruction from more than two years of Israeli strikes, with many victims still buried under rubble.

Agreement status uncertain

The agreement, announced late on Thursday by US President Donald Trump after the US-led Board of Peace and International Stabilization Force for Gaza said mediators from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the United States had finalised a roadmap, and confirmed by Hamas, calls for a cessation of military operations, a progressive Israeli withdrawal from areas still controlled in Gaza, and the dismantling of armed groups including Hamas. Israel has not publicly agreed to the proposal, and Hamas says it will not implement any part of it unless Israeli forces meet their own obligation to withdraw. The deal requires a precise disarmament roadmap within 14 days, subject to an international verification body. The continued strikes raise questions about the agreement's implementation, as both sides have yet to halt hostilities.