Gaza Live: Israeli air strike takes out 25 members of same family

At least eight people were killed and several more wounded by an Israeli strike on Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City on Friday. 

Israel has escalated its strikes across Gaza amid a ceasefire in Lebanon. 

Israel earlier attacked Gaza's Beit Lahia refugee camp. 

At least 19 bodies of Palestinians were pulled from the rubble of building in Nuseirat refugee camp after devastating Israeli strikes, medics told Reuters. 

Israeli tanks withdrew from northern areas on the camp on Friday but remained active in its western parts.

The Palestinian civil defence said it was unable to respond to distress calls from residents trapped in their homes.

A slim majority of Israelis are opposed to Israeli settlements in Gaza, with a wide swath of the country undecided, underscoring how advocates of permanently occupying Gaza have scope to gain sway. 

A poll by Israel's Channel 12 news found 51 percent of respondents are against the rebuilding of Israeli settlements in Gaza, with 33 percent in favour and 16 percent undecided.  

The same poll found a shift in support for former prime minister Naftali Bennett against Netanyahu, with 39 percent of respondents favouring the former and 33 percent the latter when asked to decide between the two. 

Israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law, violating Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. 

A Hamas delegation is set to arrive in Cairo on Saturday for talks with Egyptian officials on a ceasefire, Hamas senior official Basem Naim told Reuters.

The visit comes amid reports that Egypt instructed Hamas it has to be more flexible on allowing Israeli troops to remain in Gaza.

The US has said that following the ceasefire in Lebanon it wants to work with Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey to revive talks for a Gaza hostage release and ceasefire. 

At least three Palestinians were trampled to death in a stampede at a bakery in the central Gazan city of Deir el-Balah on Friday, as hungry people rushed for bread.

Two women and "a young girl, died in front of a bakery in Deir al-Balah as a result of a stampede while trying to buy bread", Deir el-Balah's Al-Aqsa hospital said in a statement.

"The crowding and pushing were intense in front of the bakery. Suddenly, there was loud screaming, and they fell to the ground, suffocated by the stampede, including a young girl," one eyewitness told AFP.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz want Israel's military chief of staff Herzi Halevi to step down by the end of the 60-day Lebanon ceasefire agreement, according to Kan public broadcaster. 

Netanyahu and Katz want Halevi to step down over the 7 October Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, the report said. 

Women and children are scavenging for food among mounds of trash in parts of the Gaza Strip, a UN official said on Friday. 

Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights office for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, expressed concern for the rising level of hunger in Gaza. 

"I was particularly alarmed by the prevalence of hunger," Sunghay said. "Acquiring basic necessities has become a daily, dreadful struggle for survival."

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said on Friday that the group would coordinate at a "high level" with the Lebanese army to implement the terms of a ceasefire with Israel that began two days earlier.

"The coordination between the resistance and the Lebanese army will be at a high level to implement the commitments of the agreement," Qassem said, adding that "no one is betting on problems or disagreements" with the army.

Saudi Arabia has abandoned its call for a defence treaty with the US in return for normalising relations with Israel, according to a Reuters report on Friday.

Riyadh gave up its demand after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took a more ironclad position on the creation of a Palestinian state in exchange for normalising ties with Israel. 

The kingdom had previously said it would need to see a public commitment from Israel towards a Palestinian state. It has now called for the concrete creation of a state. 

Now, Saudi Arabia and the US are discussing expanding joint military exercises and drills rather than a defence pact. 

Naim Qassem, the head of Hezbollah, has said the group had scored a victory bigger than in its 2006 war with Israel, in his first televised remarks since a ceasefire went into effect on Wednesday. 

Speaking on Friday, Qassem said Hezbollah had achieved a "divine victory". 

The death toll from Israel's strikes on Beit Lahia in northern Gaza has jumped to 75 people, the Palestinian civil defence told Al Jazeera on Friday. 

Palestinian health officials say Israel is preventing first responders from arriving at the site of the attack.

At least 70 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes on Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, according to Arabic media reports on Friday. 

Citing medical sources, Al Jazeera said at least 70 Palestinians, mainly women and children, have been killed in two seperate Israeli strikes. 

The Israeli army is preventing ambulances and first responders from reaching the site of the attacks, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. 

The Israeli army said that four soldiers were wounded in the bus shooting incident near the illegal settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank.

Hamas' armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack.

When Hezbollah’s late secretary general, Hasan Nasrallah, was killed by 10 bunker-busting bombs dropped on a bunker 60 feet below ground, there was jubilation on the streets of Israel. 

"Oh Nasrallah, we’ll take you down, God willing, and send you back to God along with all of Hezbollah," were the lyrics of a song  blasted from one apartment building in Tel Aviv. 

A lifeguard announced to swimmers: "With happiness, joy and cheer, we announce officially that the rat Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated yesterday. The people of Israel live." And in common with received wisdom at the time, The Spectator proclaimed: "Nasrallah is dead and Hezbollah is broken." 

Only two months later, the mood in Israel is very different. Just 11 days ago, the defence minister, Israel Katz, said that the goal was to disarm Hezbollah and create a buffer zone in south Lebanon.

The army secured neither and the Israelis knew it.

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The chief of Hezbollah is due to give a speech Friday, the Lebanese militant group said, his first since the start of a ceasefire with Israel two days earlier.

The Lebanese group announced in a statement "a speech by the secretary general of Hezbollah Sheikh Naim Qassem today", without specifying the time.