Deadly attacks continued despite a new U.S.-backed roadmap aimed at securing Hamas disarmament and an Israeli withdrawal.

At least eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence, as fighting continued despite a newly unveiled U.S.-backed plan to revive last year’s ceasefire agreement and advance Hamas’s disarmament.

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Among those killed were a man and a woman struck in an Israeli helicopter attack on an apartment south of Deir el-Balah. Separate strikes killed three people in Khan Younis and one in Gaza City’s Old City, with additional fatalities reported elsewhere in the enclave, bringing Sunday’s death toll to at least eight.

The attacks came two days after U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace released a 15-point roadmap outlining steps to implement last year’s Gaza ceasefire agreement. The proposal calls for Hamas to disarm and Israeli forces to withdraw, but it has yet to be implemented.

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Hamas has said it will hand over its weapons for storage only after Israel halts military operations and withdraws its forces in accordance with the previous ceasefire agreement. An Israeli official told Reuters that Israel would not withdraw from its current positions unless Hamas undergoes “genuine disarmament.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not publicly commented on the initiative. However, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir rejected the proposal as unacceptable and said Israel should continue targeting Hamas leaders.

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

Separately, an Israeli strike destroyed a medical supply warehouse in central Gaza on Saturday, leaving a crater about 20 metres wide and 10 metres deep, underscoring that military operations have continued despite renewed diplomatic efforts to restore the ceasefire.

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