Evening recap

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

Israel pounded the Gaza Strip on Friday with heavy strikes reported in Beit Lahia. Palestinian health authorities said the attack killed dozens of people. In addition, at least 19 bodies of Palestinians were pulled from the rubble of building in Nuseirat refugee camp after devastating Israeli strikes, medics told Reuters. 

Meanwhile, a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon appeared to be holding. 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 the deal.

Here are some of the day's other key developments:

• Women and children are scavenging for food among mounds of trash in parts of the Gaza Strip, a UN official said on Friday
• 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
• Three Palestinians were trampled to death in a stampede at a bakery in the central Gazan city of Deir el-Balah
• A Hamas delegation is set to arrive in Cairo on Saturday for talks with Egyptian officials on a ceasefire
• US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said President-elect Donald Trump wants to see a Gaza hostage deal and ceasefire before he returns to the White House in January.