Al Jazeera reported that the Israeli army killed four Palestinians in attacks on the Gaza Strip on Monday, and another person died from injuries sustained in an earlier attack. Since the US-brokered "ceasefire" agreement came into effect last October, nearly 1,600 Palestinians have been killed. Nickolay Mladenov, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, arrived in Israel on Monday to seek permission to deliver tents and advance the reconstruction process.