Israeli attacks on Gaza kill six people despite ‘ceasefire’

Israeli attacks and gunfire across Gaza have killed at least six people as violence persists despite a United States-brokered “ceasefire”, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence agency and health officials.

Two people were killed and several others injured when an Israeli drone struck central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp on Thursday, said Gaza’s Civil Defence. Four others were killed in attacks elsewhere in the Strip.

Gaza hospitals confirmed receiving the bodies of six people killed in the attacks.

Two of them were killed when an Israeli drone hit the courtyard of a home in the Batn as-Sameen area of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, medical sources told the Anadolu news agency. The bodies of the victims were taken to Nasser Hospital.

Another Israeli strike hit a busy street of Gaza City, killing one person and injuring several others on Thursday, the sources added.

Earlier in the day, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said at least eight people had been killed in 24 hours, with 17 others injured. It did not provide additional information on the circumstances of the casualties.

On Wednesday, an Israeli strike on a humanitarian vehicle transporting goods from the Karem Abu Salem (known as Kerem Shalom to Israelis) crossing to a warehouse in Gaza killed one person.

The World Central Kitchen (WCK), one of the main organisations delivering food to Palestinians in need, said the driver – identified as Ahmad Nasser Saleem – was killed.

“Humanitarian aid deliveries should never be a target,” WCK said in a statement, adding that it was in contact with the driver’s family and expressed its condolences. It said it expects a full accounting by Israel of the attack.

Israeli attacks; restrictions on aid

The continued killings come despite Israel and Hamas agreeing to a ceasefire on October 10, 2025.

Since then, while fighting on the ground has mostly stopped, Israel has continued carrying out air strikes inside Gaza, killing at least 1,092 Palestinians and wounding more than 3,507 during the “ceasefire”, data from the Health Ministry showed.

Since October 2023, the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, more than 73,118 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Health Ministry.

Since October 2025, Israel has also expanded its control over the enclave beyond the “Yellow Line”, which demarcates territory occupied by Israel from the rest of Gaza, according to the truce. Last week, Gaza’s Government Media Office said Israeli forces now control about 80 percent of the Strip.

Last week, a group of United Nations agencies and NGOs warned that the continued expansion of areas under Israeli control endangers civilians and relief efforts. Already, dozens of Palestinian families have been forced to leave their homes near the “Yellow Line”.

The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains critical, with its healthcare system still devastated by Israeli attacks and restrictions on aid shipments. On Thursday, health authorities said Gaza’s laboratories and blood banks are on the verge of a complete shutdown due to a crippling shortage of crucial supplies, which is threatening to paralyse diagnostic services across the war-battered enclave.

Sahar Ghanem, a director with the Health Ministry, said shortages of lab materials have reached 87 percent, while essential items needed for diagnostic tests are running at a 74-percent deficit.

Meanwhile, Hamas chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya arrived in ‌Cairo ‌for more ceasefire talks, which have so far been at a deadlock. The two parties have failed to implement the second, and more sensitive, phase of the “ceasefire”, which should deal with Hamas’s disarmament and the Israeli military’s withdrawal from Gaza.