Air strikes on a crowd and a car kill five in Gaza City

At least five Palestinians were killed on Monday in two Israeli air strikes on Gaza City, medics and health officials in the territory said. The two attacks fell on different parts of the city over the course of the day.

The first came down on a crowd beside a municipal public park, ground that displaced families have been living on, and killed two people. Several others were reported hurt.

The second hit a vehicle in Tal al-Hawa, on the western side of the city, killing at least three. Health officials put the toll there.

The Israeli military said both attacks were directed at Hamas fighters. It gave no evidence for the claim.

Two of the five men were taken to al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility still working in Gaza, where relatives and friends gathered before the bodies were carried to a cemetery and buried.

Amjad Abu Abdo, who lost a relation in the attacks, said the truce holds only on paper. "There is no ceasefire," he said, describing households that do not sleep through the noise of drones overhead for fear of what follows it.

Monday's strikes come after a weekend of attacks. Two Palestinians, one of them three years old, were killed in a strike on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on Sunday, and at least four were killed the day before.

More than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect last October, according to the health ministry in the territory. Over those same months the Israeli army has recorded five deaths in its own ranks, and one among the civilian contractors working alongside it.

The two counts are kept by different bodies and measure different things, so they are not a ratio and should not be read as one. What they do fix is where the danger sits. Both of Monday's attacks were described by the army as aimed at combatants, and one of them landed among people on a patch of parkland that families driven out of other neighbourhoods had nowhere better than to sleep on.