Live: Strike announced in Israel amid mounting anger at Netanyahu

Four more people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a home in the Ma'an area, south-east of Khan Younis.

An estimated 37 people have been killed in strikes on central and southern Gaza since last night.

Lebanon's Hezbollah group has claimed a drone attack on spy equipment at Israel's al-Raheb military site.

In a statement, the group said it had struck the site at 12pm (09:00 GMT) and 12:15pm on Saturday.

There are an estimated 19,000 unaccompanied children in Gaza as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression in the enclave, a Unicef spokesperson said on Saturday.

Kazem Abu Khalaf said that "the number of unaccompanied children in Gaza is a purely estimated number, because we cannot accurately determine the numbers", adding that the figure included children who had been separated from their parents by displacement, or whose parents had died.

At least 100,000 people have been displaced from Deir el-Balah in two days, following Israel's latest evacuation orders for the central city, according to the Deir el-Balah municipality.

It added that the new offensive had forced the closure of 20 shelters.

The Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) has posted footage of its emergency teams recovering the bodies of five Palestinians and one wounded person after an Israeli strike on a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

🚨In a dangerous mission from the northernmost point of Nuseirat camp, central #Gaza, Palestine Red Crescent teams successfully recovered the bodies of five people and rescued an injured person after an Israeli military strike on a home.
Filmed by volunteer: Mohamed Suleiman. pic.twitter.com/ql7arAcDlb

— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) August 24, 2024

Israeli forces have targeted the outskirts of the towns of Aitaroun and Maroun al-Ras with artillery shelling, Lebanon’s official National News Agency has reported.

The agency previously reported shelling on the outskirts of Ayta ash Shab.

The armed wing of Hamas has said on Telegram that its fighters attacked an Israeli troop carrier with a Yassin-105 missile east of the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

At least 37 Palestinians have been killed in an overnight surge in Israeli air strikes on southern and central Gaza, according to the enclave's health ministry. Most of the casualties were concentrated in or around Khan Younis and included women and children.

In Khan Younis, 11 were killed in an air strike targeting a home in the al-Amal neighbourhood, while another 11 were killed in a separate strike on al-Katiba in central Khan Younis.

Footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency revealed bodies arriving at Khan Younis's Nasser Hospital.

In Rafah, rescue teams recovered three bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, with many more victims remaining trapped under rubble.

In central Gaza, three people were killed and others injured in air strikes targeting the Ein Jalout Towers in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

In Deir el-Balah, an Israeli quadcopter drone opened fire on tents sheltering displaced people, killing one person and injuring five others.

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates:

• Thirty-seven Palestinians have been killed in a surge in overnight Israeli strikes concentrated in southern and central Gaza. Thirty-two of those killed have been taken to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

• An Israeli quadcopter drone opened fire on displaced Palestinians sheltering in tents east of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, injuring at least five people.

• Over a million people in southern and central Gaza may not receive food aid amid repeated displacement orders by the Israeli military, according to the UN.

• Israeli forces have stormed the village of Tal, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• In a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, government ministers and the attorney general, Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet security service, warned that Jewish terrorism was endangering Israel's existence

• Anwar El Ghazi has announced that he received a payout from Mainz after a German court ruled he was unfairly dismissed by the club over a social media post concerning Israel's war on Gaza

• Thirty UK-based doctors and medical staff who served in the Gaza Strip have written a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer demanding a ban on arms sales to Israel

• Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir slammed Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for returning Israel’s north to the Stone Age instead of doing so to Lebanon

• A captive's daughter said she left a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with "little hope" that a captive exchange deal would be reached soon

• Iran's newly appointed foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, informed his French and British counterparts in phone conversations that Iran reserves the right to retaliate against Israel for the recent assassination of a Hamas official in Tehran, according to the official Irna news agency

• The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said that the court has jurisdiction to investigate Israeli nationals and called on judges to urgently decide on arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant

The Biden administration rebuked sceptics of its efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza on Friday, saying a flurry of media leaks suggesting that negotiations had all but collapsed were “inaccurate”.

“The process is moving forward in the way we had outlined,” US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said. “There has been progress made. We need now for both sides to come together and work towards implementation.”

Kirby said ongoing talks in Cairo had been “constructive”. He confirmed two of the White House's top negotiators, CIA director Bill Burns and top Middle East advisor Brett McGurk, were in Egypt's capital.

The officials met with Egyptian spy chief Abbas Kamel, as the fate of the border between Egypt and Gaza emerges as the latest stumbling block to a ceasefire deal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that Israel maintain control of the border area called the Philadelphi Corridor, putting Israel at odds with both Hamas and Egypt

Read more: US rebukes sceptics of ceasefire talks as diplomats meet in Egypt

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has announced that its medical points are temporarily out of service due to the "ongoing actions of the Israeli occupation."

These actions include raids across different areas of the Gaza Strip and the implementation of forced displacement policies, according to the PRCS.

The medical points were established to provide primary care and other essential services, aimed at easing the strain on Gaza’s overburdened hospitals.

The PRCS also noted that many of its remaining facilities are operating "at their lowest capacity".

Hezbollah reported that it had launched 14 attacks on soldiers, military sites, and vehicles in northern Israel by 8 pm on Friday local time.

This marks the highest number of attacks carried out by the group against Israel in the past 35 days. The escalation coincides with the announcement that seven of its members were killed by Israeli fire.

Israel's Channel 12 stated that over 100 rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel since Friday morning.

The official Israeli Broadcasting Authority confirmed that around 40 rockets were launched from southern Lebanon, targeting Kiryat Shmona and surrounding areas in northern Israel.

 Israel's war on Gaza, accompanied by US support, has led to mass outrage among Muslim and Arab Americans and pro-Palestinian groups who have in response mobilised against the war in numerous ways.

Massive pro-Palestine protests have been organised on a regular basis, activists have targeted arms manufacturers, and dozens of student-led Gaza solidarity encampments popped up on university campuses across the country since the war began.

Electorally, two major Muslim and Arab-led initiatives have emerged out of the response to the war.

Though these groups appear to be aligned and are often seen as interchangeable, the groups are quite distinct.

The first group, Abandon Harris (formerly Abandon Biden), has vowed to do everything in its power to get voters to turn away from Harris and the Democratic Party for its continued support for the war on Gaza.

Read more: What separates the pro-Palestinian 'Uncommitted' and 'Abandon Harris' movements?