Israeli strikes killed four Palestinians, including a child, in the Gaza Strip yesterday, health officials there said, as Israel’s military expanded the area under its control, according to residents.

The reports came as mediators in Cairo said they were pressing on with efforts to salvage a fragile US-brokered ceasefire deal that has ended major clashes but left many key points unresolved.

Medics said two people were killed when an Israeli strike hit near a tent encampment in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the south of the enclave.

In the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, medics said two Palestinians, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed and others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike that hit near a group of people digging a well.