Israeli strikes on a Hamas police post and a vehicle in the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed at least nine people and wounded 20, health officials said, as mediators began new efforts to salvage a fragile US-brokered ceasefire deal and Israel doubled down on its commitment to disarming the terror group.

One strike hit a Hamas police post in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, adjacent to a large tent encampment of displaced families. Five people were killed, and 16 were wounded, medics said, without clarifying how many of the casualties were police.

The IDF said the strike targeted a Hamas command center.

Later on Sunday, a strike near the Burak School in western Gaza City killed four people, according to Hamas-affiliated media outlets. Medics said the strike hit a vehicle as it drove through the city.

An IDF spokesman told AFP that Israeli forces struck “two Hamas terrorists” in the incident.

Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital confirmed that it received four bodies following the strike in the city.

Meanwhile, Nasser Hospital said it received five bodies following the earlier strike in Khan Younis and was treating the wounded, some of them in “critical condition.”

In a separate incident, the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah said it received the body of a fisherman shot dead by Israeli naval forces in the early hours of Sunday.

The IDF said it was looking into the incident.

Since the start of the war in October 2023, Israel has enforced strict restrictions on access to the sea in Gaza, including opening fire on fishermen.

Major fighting in Gaza has been paused since October under a ceasefire, after two years of war sparked by the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack, but no agreement has been reached to implement a further US-backed plan for Israeli troops to withdraw, Hamas to........

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