CAIRO: Israeli strikes killed three Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, health officials said, and Hamas said ending such attacks was crucial to further talks on safeguarding a US-brokered ceasefire.

Medics said one Palestinian was killed in an airstrike in the central Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said it had struck a person acting suspiciously near forces operating in an Israeli-controlled area to remove the threat. A separate Israeli airstrike killed two brothers Saqer and Moamen Khalil Abu Karim in the courtyard of a house in the nearby Maghazi refugee camp, medics said.

Israel’s military did not immediately comment on the incident. The ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump has failed to halt Israeli attacks in Gaza and left Israel in control of over half the enclave following the conflict that began with Hamas attacks on southern Israel in October 2023.

Indirect talks on implementing the second phase of the deal, which includes the group’s disarmament and Israeli army withdrawals, are deadlocked.

Published in Dawn, June 4th, 2026