Pakistan, Aug. 3 -- Israeli forces have killed at least 17 Palestinians in Gaza, despite United States President Donald Trump announcing a plan he describes 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 ...