Live blog: Gaza under attack

A poll carried out by the Palestinian Centre for Public Opinion in Gaza has revealed 93 percent of people in the enclave oppose the disarmament of “resistance groups”.

87 percent of people are “in favour of a long term truce” while 81 percent support the Palestinian Authority going to the International Criminal Court to “file charges of war crimes committed by Israel” in Gaza.

The poll was carried out between 14 and 19 August involving interviews with 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert has been interviewed by BBC's HARDtalk about his work in Gaza, where he volunteers at al-Shifa hospital. He was questioned on his role as a political activist supporting the Palestinian cause and whether this interferes with his work as a medic.

The Israeli army have been warning Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday to "stay away from sites used for terrorism purposes," via text messages, recorded messages and leaflets according to Haaretz. ave via text messages, recorded messages, and leaflets.

"The IDF intends to attack terrorists and terror infrastructure across the Gaza Strip," said the leaflet text. "Hamas leadership, while remaining in underground hiding, disregarding the civilians' needs and wishes for tranquility, will be pursued."

"Israel is currently attacking, and will continue to attack, every area from which terror activities against Israel originate. Every house from which militant activity is carried out, will be targeted."

"For your own safety, prevent terrorists from utilizing your property for terror agendas, and stay away from every site in which terrorist organizations are operating. The IDF calls you to distance yourselves from where fire was directed at Israel."

"The IDF's campaign has not been concluded. Beware."

Analysts say Gaza’s economy has been set back 10 years as a result of Israel's military offensive, MEE's Noor Harazeen reports:

Israeli warplanes have pounded Gaza on Saturday, killing five Palestinians from the same family.

The Israeli military has said it has carried out more than 20 air strikes over Gaza today and that at least three rockets or mortar rounds had hit southern Israel.

Witnesses and Palestinian officials said two mosques were destroyed in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza, while a third, in the Shati refugee camp, which has been subject to other attacks, was bombed again.

The deadliest Israeli air strike so far on Saturday levelled a home in Al-Zawayda in central Gaza, killing a couple, their sons aged three and four, and a 45-year-old aunt, medics said.

Another seven Palestinians were wounded in an Israeli strike that struck a house in Zeitun, east of Gaza City, medics said.

A spokesperson for the Israeli army has said the mortar that killed a four-year-old child in Israel was not fired from a UN shelter in Gaza.

After initially accusing Palestinian fighters of firing from a UNRWA facility, an Israeli official said they were wrong.

Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal has said his group do not target civilians, but do lack the sophisticated weaponry needed to target exclusively Israeli military sites.

"We do not target civilians, and we try most of the time to aim at military targets and Israeli bases," Meshaal told reporters in Qatar.

"But we admit that we have a problem. We do not have sophisticated weapons. We do not have the weapons available to our enemy…so aiming is difficult. We do promise you, though, that we will try in the future and we will warn people…We have given warnings to Israeli civilians. We promise that if we get more precise weapons, we will only target military targets."

Meshaal also rejected accusations by Israeli politicians that Hamas are bedfellows with the Islamic State.

"We are not a religious, violent group," he said, describing the Islamic State as a "totally different phenomenon. We are fighting against aggression in our land."

A spokesperson for Hamas has told Al Jazeera that the Palestinian factions have agreed that they will not take part in any further temporary ceasefires in Gaza.

"Our primary efforts are now focused on international and European attempts to reach a long-term truce between the sides," Moussa Abu Marzouk said.

He went to accuse Israel of using the temporary ceasefires to grow its list of demands.

"Israel only understands the language of force and resistance, and continues with the war of attrition to achieve goals," he said.

While acknowledging that fighters in Gaza are still building rockets, Marzouk said a political solution is the only option to end the conflict. He said Hamas is working on a document to address "resistance" that will allow Palestinians to "continue the struggle to liberate Jerusalem and the occupied territories."

Israel's insistence on maintaining a blockade on Gaza is itself an act of war–meaning that most discussions about "ending" the conflict are really about how to extend a state of war against Gaza.

This article came in response to the New York Times' Jodi Rudoren's piece: 'Israel kills 3 top Hamas leaders as latest fighting turns its way'

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Cairo on Friday for talks with Egyptian officials regarding efforts to bring about a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian factions in the embattled Gaza Strip, diplomatic sources have said.

Abbas, who arrived from Doha, is slated to meet with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to discuss the outcome of recent talks in Jordan and Qatar regarding the situation in Gaza, the sources added.