What We Know About Gaza's Drone Strikes Since the Ceasefire

At least six Palestinians were killed in Israeli drone strikes across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to Palestinian medical and emergency workers cited by Al Jazeera. The strikes occurred roughly a year after a US-brokered ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, and come as the United Nations children's agency reports a rising toll on minors during the truce period.

What happened in Gaza on Saturday?

The drone attacks hit northern, central and southern Gaza within the same day, Al Jazeera reported, citing Palestinian medical and emergency staff. Near al-Faluja cemetery west of Jabalia refugee camp, a drone strike on a group of civilians killed one man and wounded several others, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources. In Rafah's al-Mawasi area, a drone strike killed one person and injured others, according to Wafa.

In Gaza City's Tuffah neighborhood, staff at al-Shifa Hospital said two people were killed and others wounded. Witnesses told Al Jazeera that those hit had been returning from the burial of a person killed in an earlier attack. A separate strike in eastern Gaza City killed another person, al-Shifa Hospital staff said. In central Gaza, staff at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital reported one person killed and one injured in Deir el-Balah.

How many Palestinians have died since the ceasefire took effect?

Gaza's Health Ministry said in a Saturday update that 1,511 Palestinians have been killed and 5,375 injured since the ceasefire was announced on October 10, 2025, Al Jazeera reported. Covering the preceding 48 hours alone, the ministry recorded six deaths and 43 injuries across the territory — the toll from Saturday's drone strikes.

Those figures sit alongside the ministry's broader count for the war that began in October 2023: 74,469 Palestinians killed and 175,492 injured, according to the ministry's tally cited by Al Jazeera.

What is UNICEF reporting about children killed?

UNICEF spokesman Ricardo Pires told reporters in Geneva on Friday that more than 340 children have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire began a year ago, Al Jazeera reported. Pires said seven children died in attacks over the preceding two weeks, with at least 33 others seriously injured in that same window.

UNICEF also said about 800,000 children remain displaced across the Strip, many living in tents or structurally unsafe buildings as winter approaches, according to the agency's Geneva briefing.

How much of Gaza remains under Israeli military control?

Mapping published by Al Jazeera on October 12 showed Israeli forces control or restrict access to roughly 65 percent of Gaza territory. The restricted zone is bounded in part by what is known as the "Yellow Line," a demarcation established to mark Israeli military positions following a partial withdrawal carried out under the ceasefire framework, Al Jazeera reported.

That territorial control and the continuing strikes illustrate the gap between the ceasefire's formal terms and conditions on the ground a year after it was announced. Al Jazeera's reporting places the word "ceasefire" in quotation marks throughout its coverage, underscoring that lethal incidents have continued despite the agreement.

What to watch next

• Whether Gaza's Health Ministry issues updated casualty figures in its next 48-hour report, and whether the death toll tied to the ceasefire period continues to climb past the current 1,511 figure.
• Any further UNICEF briefings on child casualties or displacement numbers as winter conditions worsen for an estimated 800,000 displaced children.
• Whether the "Yellow Line" boundary shifts, given Al Jazeera's October 12 mapping showing Israeli forces controlling or restricting roughly 65 percent of Gaza.
• Statements from Israeli officials responding to the specific strikes near Jabalia, Rafah, Gaza City and Deir el-Balah reported by Palestinian medical staff and Wafa.

Why do deaths continue if there is a ceasefire?

Al Jazeera's reporting does not include an Israeli government explanation for Saturday's specific strikes. The outlet's coverage focuses on accounts from Palestinian medical and emergency workers, hospital staff at al-Shifa and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the Wafa news agency, and the Gaza Health Ministry's casualty tracking. The ministry's 48-hour update attributes six deaths and 43 injuries directly to incidents in that window, matching the toll from the drone strikes described in witness and hospital accounts.

The discrepancy between the ceasefire's stated goal of halting hostilities and the ministry's running count of 1,511 deaths over the past year is a central fact in Al Jazeera's reporting, which repeatedly notes that Israeli raids have continued despite the truce.

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