Israel kills 19 in Gaza as attacks escalate despite latest Trump plan

Israeli forces have killed at least 19 Palestinians in Gaza, despite United States President Donald Trump announcing a plan he described as a “monumental step” towards peace and security in the shattered enclave.

The deaths on Sunday included three people killed in an air raid on a residential apartment in Al-Sousi Tower in western Gaza City – Abdullah Abu Taif, 33, his pregnant wife, Abeer Anan, 29, and their five-year-old son, Azzam – according to medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital.

An attack on an apartment in al-Qarara, northwest of the city of Khan Younis, killed three members of the Al-Hams family – father Mahmoud, 38, his wife, Fatima, 37, and their young daughter. Three others were wounded, medical sources at Nasser Hospital said.

Kamu Abu Muailiq, 68, and his wife, Huda, 59, were killed in an attack on their home near Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, medics said. In the same area, two brothers were killed as they rode a motorbike.

In northern Gaza, a Palestinian was killed after being directly targeted in the Jabalia refugee camp.

In al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, one Palestinian was killed, and five others were wounded in an Israeli attack on a tent.

Two Palestinians, including one, were killed in an Israeli drone attack on a tent for displaced people in the Remal neighbourhood, west of Gaza City. Four others were killed in a strike on a vehicle in Gaza City.

The Israeli attacks since dawn caused the largest daily death toll in weeks, according to Palestinian health officials.

On Saturday, an Israeli attack hit medicine warehouses attached to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah.

Gaza Health Ministry’s director-general, Munir al-Bursh, said that destroying supplies “turns medicine and illness itself into a tool of war”. The ministry reported that two facilities were destroyed and two were severely damaged.

Reporting from the bomb site, Al Jazeera correspondent Moath al-Kahlout saw a massive crater and said the strike came just 15 minutes after an evacuation order, damaging tents where displaced people had been sheltering, and triggering a new wave of displacement.

‘Without warning’

Israeli warplanes have struck multiple targets over the past 48 hours, operating at low altitude without issuing prior warnings to residents, according to Al Jazeera correspondents reporting from across Gaza.

Most of the targets were residential buildings, apartments and gatherings of civilians, which Israel says are legitimate targets because they include members of Hamas or other armed groups.

“The strikes came without any warning or evacuation orders for the residents living in the targeted areas,” Al Jazeera’s Nour Khaled reported from Gaza City. “Last night was particularly difficult for Palestinians. There were a number of strikes targeting several areas across all parts of the Gaza Strip.”

On Saturday, at least eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes targeting various areas. On Friday, Palestinians were also killed in separate attacks.

This came as the Board of Peace and the International Stabilization Force — oversight entities established under Washington’s 20-point Gaza peace plan — and Trump announced an agreement on Friday to implement the next phase of the Gaza “ceasefire”, with the board saying Hamas had accepted a detailed roadmap. Israel has not officially commented on the proposal.

Illusory agreements

Palestinians say Israel’s continued attacks, coupled with restrictions on humanitarian aid despite the so-called ceasefire, have turned the truce into “an illusion” and further deepened their humanitarian crisis.

The killings follow a similar pattern to previous deals that existed only on paper and had no grounding in reality, such as the repeated ceasefires in Lebanon since 2024 and last October’s ceasefire in Gaza. All have been largely ignored by Israel, which has been accused of deliberately sabotaging them.

Since the October 2025 “ceasefire”, mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the US, at least 1,222 Palestinians have been killed and 4,053 injured, according to health authorities in Gaza.

Mohanad Mustafa, an academic and expert on Israeli affairs, told Al Jazeera that Israel approaches agreements from a position of non-commitment.

“All these agreements were imposed on Israel. Israel did not want to go to settlements or agreements. They were imposed on Israel by another party, particularly the United States,” he said.

“Israel gives different interpretations to the agreement at the level of terminology and clauses,” Mustafa said. “Therefore, it tends towards violating the agreement, claiming that its interpretation and approach differ from how the other party interprets it.”

US pressure remains “the only factor that can influence the Israeli position”.

Israel voices concerns over disarmament plan

Israel has raised concerns with the United States over the proposed agreement, challenging key provisions of a roadmap that links Hamas’s disarmament to a phased Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

Doron Spielman, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, told The Associated Press (AP) news agency on Sunday that Israel would not withdraw its forces before Hamas had fully surrendered its weapons. He said Israeli officials believed the group intended to rebuild its military capabilities rather than permanently demilitarise.

People familiar with the discussions told AP that Israel had also sought guarantees that it could continue conducting military operations in Gaza. Other objections concerned the participation of Qatar and Turkiye in verifying compliance, and whether weapons collected from Hamas would be destroyed rather than stored by the new Palestinian technocratic administration.

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen separately said there was no agreement requiring Israel to suspend its attacks while the plan was being negotiated. Speaking to Israel’s Army Radio, Cohen said the government remained sceptical that Hamas would disarm and argued that Israel should take full control of Gaza if the process failed.

Hamas accused Israel of intensifying its attacks on Gaza to obstruct understandings reached with mediators and Washington over the implementation of the ceasefire agreement.

The group said that Israeli attacks since Sunday morning had killed more than 18 Palestinians and destroyed family homes. It called on mediators and guarantors of the “ceasefire” to pressure Israel to halt its attacks and comply with the agreement.

Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace’s lead envoy for Gaza, said mediators were working “around the clock” to reduce tensions and create the conditions needed to implement the roadmap.