Israel kills eight in Gaza despite Trump’s Hamas disarmament plan

Strikes hit Gaza homes two days after US unveiled plan for Hamas disarmament, Israeli withdrawal.

By Reuters

Published On 2 Aug 20262 Aug 2026

Israeli forces have killed at least eight Palestinians in strikes across the Gaza Strip, Gaza’s civil defence said.

Among those killed on Sunday were a man and woman hit in an Israeli helicopter strike on an apartment south of Deir el-Balah, the Palestinian Civil Defence said. Separate strikes killed several others across the territory, including three people in Khan Younis and one person in Gaza City’s Old City.

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The strikes came on Sunday, two days after United States President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace published a 15-point roadmap for implementing last year’s Gaza ceasefire agreement, extending a pattern of continued Israeli strikes despite diplomatic breakthroughs.

The roadmap has yet to be implemented on the ground. Hamas has said it will hand over its weapons for storage only after Israel halts military operations and withdraws its forces in line with last year’s agreement. An Israeli official told the Reuters news agency there would be no withdrawal from current positions unless Hamas undergoes “genuine disarmament”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not publicly commented on the initiative, but far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called it unacceptable and said Israel should continue targeting Hamas leaders.

Former senior Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan, based in the United Arab Emirates, said Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a senior adviser on the US initiative, told him he was working with Israel to halt the attacks on Gaza. Dahlan said talks with Washington were continuing, and that the agreement’s success now depended on Israel fully ending its daily strikes.

Separately, Israeli strikes destroyed a medical supply warehouse in central Gaza on Saturday, leaving a crater 20 metres (66ft) wide and 10 metres (33ft) deep, part of a broader wave of attacks that has continued despite the ceasefire push.