The Israeli army on Saturday withdrew from northern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and urged residents in central Gaza to evacuate.

Palestinian security sources reported extensive damage to residential buildings after the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Khan Younis.

The sources said the destruction was particularly severe in Hamad City, a neighborhood northwest of the city, with dozens of apartments demolished and towers flattened.

Civil defense teams, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other organizations and units are busy searching for missing persons in the areas invaded by the Israeli army, said local sources and eyewitnesses.

They said several bodies and remains were recovered and transported to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.

Successive Israeli evacuation orders in Gaza have displaced 90 percent of its 2.1 million residents since October, the top UN humanitarian official for the Palestinian territory said.

Muhannad Hadi, the UN coordinator for humanitarian affairs in Palestine, said the evacuation orders are endangering civilians instead of protecting them.

Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee urged residents in some parts of central Gaza to evacuate immediately. "For your safety, evacuate these areas immediately and move to humanitarian zones," he said.

The Israeli army also noted that its combat team from the 7th Brigade is engaged in battles on the outskirts of Deir al-Balah, destroying dozens of "terrorist infrastructures" and eliminating numerous operatives.

In a separate statement, the army claimed to have destroyed a 500-meter-long tunnel belonging to the Islamic Jihad movement in Khan Younis. During a raid, the forces also found and destroyed several protective vests, hand grenades, and a ready-to-launch rocket platform.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah said on Saturday that it attacked three Israeli military sites with suicide drones and artillery shells in support of the Palestinian people's resistance in the Gaza Strip.

In three separate statements, Hezbollah said, "Our fighters targeted Saturday the enemy's positions in Mount Hermon and its espionage equipment in Al-Raheb and Kiryat Shmona sites with suicide drones and artillery shells, hitting them directly."

Lebanese military sources told Xinhua that Lebanese army sites monitored the launch of several drones, artillery shells and rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel in the morning.

They said an Israeli drone raided a house in the village of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, partially damaging it but causing no injuries.

The sources said seven border towns and villages in the eastern and central sectors of southern Lebanon were shelled, with material damage reported.

The Gaza ceasefire talks reportedly resumed in Cairo earlier this week and continued over the weekend. Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Iranian counterpart Seyyed Abbas Araghchi on Saturday exchanged views on the deteriorating regional situation in light of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.

During a phone conversation, the two ministers also discussed the "repeated Israeli violations" of international law and international humanitarian law, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Abdelatty expressed Egypt's aspiration to broker a Gaza ceasefire agreement and a hostage-prisoner exchange deal between the warring parties, hoping that the mediation efforts would deescalate the situation to avoid slipping into a regional cycle of violence and escalation, according to the statement.

The two ministers also agreed to continue consultations to follow up on the course of bilateral relations and regional developments.

On Thursday, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office confirmed the arrival of the heads of the Israeli Security Agency and the Mossad intelligence service in Cairo to participate in the negotiations for a hostage release deal.

On Saturday, Hamas announced the arrival of its delegation in Egypt in the evening to "listen to" the results of the negotiations.

(With input from agencies)