Israel-Gaza war live: 17 Palestinians reportedly killed by double Israeli strike on Nuseirat refugee camp | Israel-Gaza war

Reporting from Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, Hani Mahmoud of Al Jazeera has said that it has been “another bloody night across central Gaza”.

He reports 17 people were killed in “two separate attacks on homes in Nuseirat accommodating displaced families who had recently evacuated from Rafah”.

He said “The first strike killed ten people, including women and children. Five of them were from the same family. An hour later, the second attack targeted another family’s home. The victims include not only the parents and their children, but also the grandparents.”

Al Jazeera has been banned from operating inside Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

A lawmaker from Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has likened people protesting against the government in Israel to “a branch of Hamas”.

The Times of Israel reports that MK Nissim Vaturi, speaking on a radio station, said “there are a few branches of Hamas – the fighting branch of wicked terrorists who murder children, and the branch of the protests.”

Anti-government protesters converged on Jerusalem on Monday, calling for new elections in an effort to replace the prime minister. Discontent is mounting about the conduct of the war in Gaza and anti-government groups have called for a week of daily protests.

People were injured and multiple arrests were made at last night’s demonstration outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home.

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Two key Democrats in the US Congress have agreed to support a major arms sale to Israel that includes 50 F-15 fighter jets worth more than $18bn, the Washington Post has reported, citing three unnamed officials.

Representative Gregory Meeks and Senator Ben Cardin have signed off on the deal under heavy pressure from the Biden administration after the two lawmakers had for months held up the sale, the Post reported.

“Any issues or concerns Chair Cardin had were addressed through our ongoing consultations with the [Biden] administration, and that’s why he felt it appropriate to allow this case to move forward,” Eric Harris, communications director for the senate foreign relations committee, told the Post in a statement.

Meeks told the paper that he had been in close contact with the White House and had urged them to pressure Israel over humanitarian efforts and civilian casualties. He said the F-15s would not be delivered until “years from now,” according to the Post.

More on that soonest. In other key developments:

• Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the Israeli war cabinet that had been overseeing the conflict in Gaza, rebuffing far-right allies who had been seeking seats, and apparently moving to solidify his grasp on decision-making over the fighting with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The prime minister announced the move to ministers on Monday, saying the war cabinet had been established as part of an agreement in which the moderate politician Benny Gantz and his National Unity party joined an emergency coalition last year, and was no longer needed now Gantz had left government

• News of the disbandment came as thousands of Israelis protested against Netanyahu’s government on Monday over the Gaza war and failure to negotiate the release of scores of hostages still held in the Palestinian territory. Protesters travelled to Jerusalem to rally outside the Israeli parliament and Netanyahu’s residence, clashing with police and urging new elections as part of what has been dubbed a week of disturbance by activists. Nine people were arrested

• A senior envoy from the Biden administration met Netanyahu for talks aimed at averting a deepening conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, after Israel warned over the weekend that it was on the brink of a “wider escalation”. Amos Hochstein also met Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, on Monday before flying to Lebanon where he will meet Nabih Berri, the octagenerian speaker of the Lebanese parliament and leader of the Amal movement, who has represented Hezbollah’s views to western interlocutors

• Unrwa chief Philippe Lazzarini said the agency has not seen a change in the position on the ground since Israel’s military announced it would take tactical pauses in its action to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza on Sunday. He told reporters in Oslo “operationally, nothing has changed yet. For the time being, I see nothing which would qualify to the definition of a pause”

• Residents of Rafah said Israeli forces were advancing deeper into the central and western areas of the southern Gaza city under heavy fire from the ground and the air on Monday. Armed groups led by Hamas were fighting from close range inside the Al-Shaboura camp in the heart of Rafah, according to militants and residents, who reported hearing sounds of non-stop explosions and gunfire

• A senior Israeli negotiator told AFP Monday that tens of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are certainly alive and that Israel cannot accept halting the war until all captives are released in a deal. Hamas militants seized 251 hostages on 7 October, of whom Israel believes 116 remain in Gaza, including 41 who the army says are dead. “Tens are alive with certainty,” the official said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak publicly on the issue

• The Palestinian Authority could collapse in the coming months, Norwegian foreign minister Espen Barth Eide said on Monday, citing a lack of funding, continuing violence and the fact that half a million Palestinians are not allowed to work in Israel. “The situation is extremely dire. The Palestinian Authority, with whom we work closely, are warning us that they might be collapsing this summer,” Barth Eide told Reuters

• Eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire as merchants and civil guards waited for commercial trucks along the eastern road of the Gaza Strip, which is designated for commercial trucks to roll on, health officials told Reuters on Monday