Evening recap

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

At least two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Friday, Al Jazeera Arabic reported, citing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. 

Meanwhile, in a meeting in Cairo with other Palestinian factions, Hamas said it agreed to turn governance in Gaza over to a technocratic committee. 

Here is what else you need to know:

• Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza are on the verge of becoming a "lost generation" unless school is quickly restarted, the United Nations warned on Friday 
• Israeli soldiers launched a fresh raid on the town of Beita south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, according to Arabic media reports
• Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that settlers vandalised the contents of a mosque in Khirbet Tana, a hamlet located near the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus
• The US is operating surveillance drones over Gaza to monitor the ceasefire in the enclave, according to a report by the New York Times