Gaza live: Israeli attack hits Unrwa centre

Israel’s bombing of several areas in central Gaza has killed at least 17 people overnight, according to local media reports.

The attacks include a strike on the al-Rai family’s home in Nuseirat, which killed at least eight people.

Palestine’s Wafa news agency also reported Israeli strikes on Rafah, southern Gaza, despite the Israeli army's announced "pause" in fighting to facilitate the flow of aid.

The intense bombing of central Gaza comes as a senior Israeli negotiator told AFP that tens of hostages held by Hamas are alive “with certainty”.

In the US, two Democratic lawmakers who had been stalling a major arms sale to Israel, which includes 50 F-15 fighter jets, have now agreed to support it following pressure from the Biden administration.

READ MORE: Israel kills scores in overnight central Gaza strikes despite 'pause'

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• Israeli forces have killed at least 10 Palestinians and wounded 73 more in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry bringing the Palestinian death toll since 7 October to 37,347, with more than 85,372 wounded

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the war cabinet days after key opposition figure Benny Gantz quit it, the Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported on Monday

• Israeli forces have torched and destroyed facilities at the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, including halls used for travellers' arrival and departure, according to local officials and media reports

• Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should dissolve the Israeli government,  following the leader's decision to disband the war cabinet after the resignation of key opposition figure Benny Gantz

• According to a new poll by the Jewish People Policy Institute, around 60 per cent of Israelis want the country to accept a captives-for-ceasefire deal presented by US President Joe Biden

• The Israeli army has claimed that it control over 60 to 70 percent of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

• In 2023, Israel's defence exports reached a historic high, exceeding 13 billion dollars, as reported by the Defense Exports Department of the Defence Ministry

American and Jordanian planes destroyed the greenhouses of a young Palestinian farmer growing crops to feed the people of Gaza. 

World Central Kitchen (WCK) has unveiled a new food distribution center called “Zomi” in honor of an aid worker who tragically lost their life during Israeli air strikes in April.

“Now [Zomi’s] dream will become true,” said one WCK worker, announcing the new kitchen in southern Khan Younis city.

“This will be our fourth large-scale kitchen in Gaza and will be named after Zomi, one of our seven team members killed in the April 1 strike on a WCK humanitarian convoy”.

US special envoy Amos Hochstein arrived in Israel on Monday in a bid by President Joe Biden's administration to avert soaring tensions between Hezbollah and Israel from erupting into a wider war.

Hochstein met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu along with National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Chief of Staff Tzachi Braverman.

Hochstein's visit to Israel underscores the urgency in Washington to prevent Israel's war on Gaza from descending into a wider regional conflagration. Axios reported that he may travel to Beirut after Israel.

Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged near daily fire since 7 October. The fighting has displaced over 86,000 Lebanese and anywhere from 60,000-96,000 Israelis from their homes.

Read more: US envoy visits Israel in bid to avert war with Hezbollah

Thousands protested outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house on Azza Street in West Jerusalem. Police arrested at least eight protesters, and used a water cannon to put out a fire that protesters had lit on the road.

The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington would soon remove all restrictions on weapons transfers according to reports by Israel's Channel 12 news and Germany’s Bild

Blinken made the promise during a recent meeting to Israel following a demanded a renewal of the same level of arms shipments as at the start of the war. 

Israeli politician and former Likud lawmaker Moshe Feiglin invoked Adolf Hitler when urging in a TV interview the expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, whom he described as "Islamo-Nazis". 

In a panel discussion on Channel 12, Feiglin called for resettlement in Gaza and argued Israel should transform the Palestinian territory into a "Hebrew Gaza".

"We are not guests in our country, this is our country, all of it," he said in the video shared on Sunday in Israeli social media. 

"As Hitler said, 'I cannot live if one Jew is left'. We can't live here if one 'Islamo-Nazi' remains in Gaza."

Feiglin represented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud between 2013 and 2015 before leaving it to establish his own far-right Zehut ("Identity") party. 

Read more: Former MP invokes Hitler in call to expel Gaza's 'Islamo-Nazi' population

At least eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes while waiting for commercial trucks along the main eastern road of the Gaza Strip.

An unknown number of people were wounded in the attack and taken to European Gaza Hospital.

Britain’s approval of arms export licences to Israel dropped by more than 95 percent following Israel's war on Gaza.

The figures, which have not previously been reported, are based on information provided by government officials to Reuters new agency and data from the Department for Business and Trade’s Export Control Joint Unit.

The United States and Germany increased arms sales to Israel after the start of the war with Hamas.

The US and UK launched strikes on Yemen's Hodeidah International airport and Kamaran Island Al-Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run said on Monday.

The US and British forces have carried out at least six airstrikes on Yemen's Hodeidah International airport and four strikes on Kamaran Island near the port of Salif off the Red Sea, Reuters reported. 

In 2023, Israel's defence exports reached a historic high, exceeding 13 billion dollars, as reported by the Defense Exports Department of the Defence Ministry.

The report indicates that 36 per cent of all defence export agreements in 2023 involved air defence systems.

Over the past five years, Israel's defence exports have doubled, with new records set each year for the last three years. In 2023, nearly half of the defence exports, 48 per cent, went to countries in Asia and the Pacific. Europe accounted for 35 per cent, North America for 9 per cent, Latin America for 4 per cent, countries in the Abraham Accords for 3 per cent, and Africa for 1 per cent.

A university in London has become the first British institution to evict its students from an encampment for Gaza after receiving a court order to disperse them. 

Wearing masks and scarves to cover their faces, students and staff chanted "Free, free Palestine" as dozens of students at the London School of Economics left a university building on Monday which they had occupied for more than 30 days. 

Forming a human chain, students frantically threw bin bags full of belongings out of the Marshall Building after the LSE obtained a court order to evict the students by 4pm on Monday. 

Using megaphones and flags, other students continued to make their presence heard as security staff told them to leave the building because of a court order. 

Read more: LSE becomes first British university to evict pro-Palestine student encampment

The Israeli army has claimed that it control over 60 to 70 percent of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. 

The offensive against Rafah has been ongoing for more than 40 days. 

At least 22 soldiers and had more than 300 others wounded as part of this battle, the millitary said.

According to a new poll by the Jewish People Policy Institute, around 60 per cent of Israelis want the country to accept a captives-for-ceasefire deal presented by US President Joe Biden.

So far, Israel has not accepted the proposal, while Hamas has proposed amendments to the deal but accepted the overall framework.

The poll also found that most Israelis want Palestinians to control Gaza after the war, with Israel maintaining a security foothold in the Strip.

Only 10 per cent want the Palestinian Authority involved in running Gaza, while 60 per cent want local Palestinian entities and Arab states involved.

More than 25 per cent of Jewish Israelis want Israel to maintain full control and occupy Gaza after the war.

Other findings of the poll, reported by the Times of Israel, revealed that 56 per cent of Jewish Israelis have a very low level of trust in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while 74 per cent of Palestinians said the same.

Views on whether Israel should attack Lebanon are also divided, with 36 per cent calling for an all-out war against Hezbollah. Another 26 per cent called for a war in Lebanon once the Gaza war is over, and 30 per cent support a political settlement.