Smoke is seen following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike in Gaza

 AFP/Gaza City

Israeli air strikes killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday, two in Deir al-Balah and two in Nusseirat, an emergency services spokesman said.

The strike in Nusseirat hit a house, killing two men aged 24 and 22, and that in Deir al-Balah open farmland, Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP.

The identities of those killed in Deir al-Balah were not immediately clear.

Hostilities in the six-week war between Israel and Hamas resumed on Tuesday and quickly spiralled into fresh bloodshed as Egyptian-brokered truce talks collapsed.

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