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

Israeli forces have closed all entrances to the village of Haris in the occupied West Bank province of Salfit, according to local media.

Omar Samara, head of the Haris village council, told Wafa news agency that the Israeli military has used gates and military checkpoints to shut off both the main and secondary entrances to the village, along with routes connecting it to nearby towns.

Several Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in Israeli air strikes in central Gaza on Sunday morning.

According to Wafa news agency, Israeli fighter jets targeted a shelter in al-Masha'ala neighbourhood southwest of Deir al-Balah, killing five.

The shelter housed displaced families.

In Gaza city, an Israeli air raid struck an apartment near al-Yarmouk mosque, killing one woman and wounding several others. 

In Rafah in the south, Israeli forces reportedly demolished residential buildings near the coast in al-Mawassi region.

Israeli forces struck a convoy of Hezbollah vehicles making their way out of Qusayr city, near the Syria-Lebanon border, overnight.

At least 150 armoured vehicles full of Hezbollah fighters left Qusayr as rebels took the strategic city.

Israel hit one of the convoys as it was departing, Reuters reported.

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

The world’s focus may be on Syria, where rebels are advancing against President Bashar al-Assad’s government, but it was another deadly day in Gaza and southern Lebanon. 

Israel pounded the Gaza Strip on Saturday. At 37 Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured by Israeli strikes across Gaza, according to Palestinian health officials. Meanwhile, at least six Lebanese were killed in the country's south by Israeli strikes. 

Here’s what else you need to know about Friday's developments in Israel's war on Gaza:

• An Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank was seriously wounded in a car ramming
• Israel said it is assisting United Nations peacekeepers in the occupied Golan Heights in repelling an attack by unnamed forces
• Norway said it wants to see an "integrated" Palestine made up of the occupied West Bank and Gaza
• More than 4,000 people have had their upper or lower limbs amputated in Gaza since Israel began its assault with the majority being children, Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director of al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza told Al Jazeera

Israeli soldiers arrested Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and raided several houses in the occupied West Bank governorates of Ramallah and Hebron, according to Palestinian media reports.

According to the reports,  Israeli soldiers raided Nabi Saleh, a village northwest of Ramallah, and opened fire while a drone flew overhead. 

The soldiers detained three villagers. 

At least three Palestinians were killed and several injured by an Israeli airstrike on Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. 

The strike hit a house in Shawwa Square. 

Meanwhile, Israel bombed a residential compound near Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. 

At least four women were killed by an Israeli strike on the Saftawi neighbourhood north of Gaza City on Saturday, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. 

Israel launched aerial and artillery strikes on a house there sheltering displaced people, according to the report. 

More than 4,000 people have had their upper or lower limbs amputated in Gaza since Israel began its assault with the majority being children, Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director of al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza said, according to Al Jazeera. 

In addition, Salmiya said that 2,000 people with spinal and brain injuries have become bedridden as a result of injuries sustained by Israeli attacks. 

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati said that stability in southern Lebanon is key to preventing more chaos in the Middle East, amid a shaky ceasefire with Israel.

“We confirm that Resolution 1701, which the Lebanese army will implement south of the Litani River in coordination with UNIFIL forces, is the basis for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of the enemy from our occupied land," Mikati said at a  special cabinet meeting in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre. 

Mikati slammed Israel's "repeated violations" of the ceasefire adding that“stability in southern Lebanon and its reconstruction is the key to stability in the Middle East”.

At least six people were killed by Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday, Lebanon's health ministry said. 

Israel struck Beit Lif, where at least five people were killed and five others injured, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

Seperataly, an Israeli  drone strike in Deir Siryan in southern Lebanon killed one person. 

An Israeli soldiers was killed fighting in Gaza the army said on Saturday.

The Israeli army said a 24-year-old platoon commander belonging to the 46th Battalion was killed in southern Gaza.

The Israeli military said on Saturday it launched strikes on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, as it continues to launch attacks more than 10 days into a ceasefire.

"The (military) identified a Hezbollah terrorist who posed a threat to the troops deployed in southern Lebanon in violation" of the ceasefire, the Israeli military said. 

The Lebanese government has accused Israel of multiple ceasefire violations, while Israel says Hezbollah has not lived up to the deal's terms.

The ceasefire has broadly held. 

"The momentum is coming back” to Gaza ceasefire talks because of the incoming Trump administration's focus on ending the war, Qatari Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, said at the Doha Forum on Saturday. 

“We have seen a lot of encouragement from the incoming administration [of US President-elect Donald Trump] in order to achieve a deal even before the president comes [into] office," Thani said.

“And that actually made us [try] to put it back on track. We’ve been engaging in the past couple of weeks,” he added.

Trump has threatened Hamas with "hell to pay" if the hostages in Gaza are not released, but has been less vocal on what his vision for the war-ravaged enclave is. 

An Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank was seriously wounded in a car ramming, according to the Israeli military. 

Israeli troops fired on the driver of the car during the ramming. 

Israel has imposed a blockade over Hebron amid the ramming. 

The electricity at Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza has been cut due to Israeli gunfire, the director-general of Gaza's healthy ministry, Munir al-Bursh, told Al Jazeera.

“We are awaiting the announcement of the deaths of children and patients who rely on oxygen following the power outage at Kamal Adwan hospital after the latest attack on the hospital’s generators,” he said. 

Kamal Adwan hospital came under Israeli fire earlier in the day. The attack caused generators to start on fire.