Israeli air strikes and gunfire killed at least eleven Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, medical officials and rescue workers said, with victims including two children and a cameraman for the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera. The attacks occurred despite an eight-month-old ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, under which more than 1,000 Palestinians have already been killed, underscoring the fragility of the truce.

In the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, an overnight strike on an apartment building killed four members of the al-Safadi family — a man, his wife, and their two daughters, aged four and fourteen — and wounded twelve others, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency. Relatives interviewed by news agencies said the family had no connection to any armed group. “Is this really a ceasefire?” survivor Mohammad al-Safadi asked. “We are civilians. I never held a weapon.” The Israeli military said it had struck a militant, without elaborating. Separate Israeli fire killed a woman in Beit Lahia and another man near Jabalia, while a drone strike in Khan Younis left one dead and eight injured.

Later in the day, an Israeli strike on a house in the Bureij refugee camp killed three people, among them Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah. The Israeli military confirmed it had carried out a “precise strike” on Wishah, asserting he was a “terrorist operative” in Hamas’s military wing who had been planning sniper attacks against troops. Al Jazeera condemned what it called a “heinous crime” and a “flagrant violation” of international law, noting that Wishah’s brother, also a journalist, had been killed by Israeli forces in April. The army provided no immediate evidence for its claim and also said the two other dead were Hamas members.

Viewed from regional capitals, the day’s violence illustrates the deadlocked implementation of the US-brokered ceasefire that took effect in October. Under the framework, major hostilities ceased but Israel continues near-daily strikes against what it describes as imminent militant threats. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures the United Nations deems reliable, says 1,017 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the truce began. Five Israeli soldiers have also died in the territory. The agreement’s second phase, promoted by President Donald Trump’s administration as a path to Hamas disarmament and Israeli withdrawal, remains stalled over Hamas’s insistence that any disarmament be linked to a political process leading to Palestinian statehood.

Diplomatic sources in Cairo and Doha say mediators — Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and Trump’s peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov — recently presented Hamas with a revised roadmap that seeks to address factional concerns while preserving the plan’s core elements. Hamas is studying the document, but no breakthrough is expected immediately. The killing of journalists, which Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists have long condemned as a pattern, continues to draw international criticism, with Al Jazeera calling for accountability. As negotiations sputter, the civilian death toll mounts, and the ceasefire’s viability faces renewed questioning.