At least four Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as Israeli attacks on the territory continued over the weekend, despite a ceasefire that has nominally been in place for more than a year.

Israeli forces carried out several attacks across Gaza on Saturday, including shelling of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. A Palestinian teacher, Diaa Abu al-Rous, was killed in that shelling, according to al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat.

Another man, Arafat al-Arair, died after suffering serious injuries days earlier when Israel struck a vehicle in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, south-west of Gaza City. A medical source at al-Shifa Hospital confirmed his death.

Two girls also died on Saturday from injuries they sustained the previous evening, when their tent caught fire at a camp for displaced people in al-Mawasi, in Khan Younis. Nasser Medical Complex confirmed the deaths. It is not clear what caused the fire.

Gaza's Health Ministry said at least six Palestinians were killed across the territory over the past 48 hours, and another 26 people were injured in the same period. The ministry said the total number of people killed since the ceasefire came into effect in October 2025 had reached 1,580, with 5,711 injured.

The United Nations human rights office warned on Friday that Israeli forces in Gaza were continuing to displace Palestinians, and that their actions continued to raise concerns of ethnic cleansing. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said Palestinians were increasingly being forced into a shrinking area of the territory, and that Israeli forces were destroying what remained of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.

The UN office said the Israeli military was working to expand its control over Gaza's territory to 70 percent, following an order from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in May. It also reported that Israeli forces had been moving the so-called yellow demarcation line further west, treating it as a kill zone and preventing Palestinians from returning to what was left of their homes.

Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Abu Azzoum said Israel was targeting civilians as it sought to displace Palestinians from the city. He said people who had evacuated homes in the eastern part of Deir el-Balah had testified that the Israeli military had adjusted the yellow line by opening fire on civilians to push them from the area.

Talks aimed at permanently ending the war in Gaza under United States President Donald Trump's peace plan have stalled, and reconstruction efforts have yet to begin amid disputes between Hamas and Israel over how the plan should be implemented.

Hamas says it will not fully disarm until Israel withdraws entirely from Gaza. Israel maintains it will not leave the territory until Hamas gives up its weapons.