Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Sunday, killing at least 17 Palestinians, one of the highest daily death tolls in months, as the IDF has escalated its attacks despite Hamas agreeing to a disarmament plan that was first announced by President Trump.
Multiple children were among the victims on Sunday, including Azzam Abu Taif, a five-year-old, who was killed alongside his father and his pregnant mother by an Israeli strike that hit a residential building in Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera.
Medical sources at Nasser Hospital told Al Jazeera that a couple and their young daughter were killed by an Israeli strike on an apartment in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. A child was also killed by an Israeli drone attack on a tent in Gaza’s City’s western Remal neighborhood. Israeli strikes also pounded central Gaza, where at least four Palestinians were killed.
A day earlier, Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians and bombed medical warehouses attached to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The ministry said the attack “resulted in the complete destruction of two out of four warehouses at the targeted site, in addition to causing severe and extensive damage to two other warehouses.”
The heavy Israeli attacks came after the so-called “Board of Peace” unveiled what it said was a 15-point plan to implement the Gaza peace plan announced by President Trump on Truth Social on Thursday night. The agreement calls for the halt of all attacks as it’s being implemented, but so did the October 2025 ceasefire deal signed by Hamas and Israel in October 2025, which Israel has violated with constant attacks that have killed at least 1,230 Palestinians since it was signed.
Under the new deal, Hamas has agreed to hand over its weapons to a Palestinian technocratic committee, known as the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, which will also take over governance of Gaza. But Hamas officials have maintained that the step will be taken only if Israel actually ceases its attacks in Gaza and withdraws its troops back to the “yellow line,” and there’s no sign Israel has actually agreed to the deal despite the announcements from Trump and the BoP.
“The agreement is a package,” senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told CNN on Friday. “We will not begin any weapons-related steps until Israel implements these commitments. Frankly, if Israel does not implement them, we will not proceed.”
Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen said on Sunday that Israel wouldn’t halt attacks and that the Israeli security cabinet hasn’t even discussed Gaza over the past three days. About one month ago, Cohen vowed that Israel would eventually take over all of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli officials have used Hamas’s alleged refusal to disarm as the pretext for continued attacks and ground incursions, though Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz recently said that the IDF won’t withdraw from Gaza even if Hamas lays down its weapons, and that the ultimate goal is the establishment of Jewish settlements.
