Israeli forces carried out a wave of strikes across Gaza, killing at least four Palestinians in incidents that unfolded despite the ceasefire that has technically been in place since October 2025. The most striking death was Basir al-Bursh, the eldest son of Gaza Health Ministry director-general Munir al-Bursh, killed by an Israeli drone strike west of the Jabalia refugee camp. The Israeli military said it had struck several militants in the operation, including Basir, but gave no further details, while his family said he had been filling water containers near his father moments before he was hit; video showed Munir al-Bursh carrying his son's blanket-wrapped body to hospital. A separate drone strike killed Raed Abu Asr in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, and another Israeli drone hit a vehicle in the Sheikh Radwan market area, killing at least one person and wounding four others, including two children, according to medical sources.

The strikes add to a mounting toll of Israeli military activity that has continued in Gaza even after large-scale fighting formally stopped nearly a year ago, with witnesses reporting Israeli military vehicles opening fire east of Jabalia and helicopters and drones active near Khan Younis and Rafah on the same day. Compounding the danger for civilians, Gaza's roughly 2,000 war-damaged buildings, homes to tens of thousands of displaced families, remain at serious risk of collapse, with UN officials warning that around 400 structures could come down at any time, a threat expected to worsen as winter rains set in. A partially destroyed apartment building in Gaza City already collapsed earlier this month, killing around 20 people who had sheltered inside it, underscoring how the physical wreckage of the war continues to claim lives even as the guns have largely, though not entirely, gone quiet.