Israel-Gaza war: 17 Palestinians reportedly killed by double Israeli strike on Nuseirat refugee camp – as it happened

Al-Jazeera reporter says it has been ‘another bloody night across central Gaza’ with attack on camp housing families evacuated from Rafah

• US envoy Amos Hochstein said on Tuesday that Washington was seeking to avoid “a greater war” following an escalation in fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli military along Lebanon’s southern frontier in recent weeks. Hochstein described the situation along the border as “serious”.< . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /p>

• Lebanon’s prime minister Najib Mikati said his nation did not seek “escalation”, but cautioned that there should be an end to “the ongoing violations of Lebanese sovereignty and the acts of systematic killing and destruction committed by Israel”. On Monday an Israeli spokesperson said they would secure the return of displaced Israelis to their homes “militarily or diplomatically”

• In its latest update Israel’s military claims it continues to carry out “precise, intelligence-based, operational activity in the Rafah area, eliminating numerous terrorists”, and that it continues “operational activity” in the central Gaza Strip, where it claims to be “eliminating terrorists in close-quarters combat”. The claims have not been independently verified

• At least 37,372 Palestinians have been killed and 85,452 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October,

• Gaza’s Hamas-led health ministry has announced. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict

• 17 people were reported killed by Israeli strikes in “two separate attacks on homes in Nuseirat accommodating displaced families who had recently evacuated from Rafah”. Al Jazeera reported “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.”

• The UN human rights chief on Tuesday warned that the rights situation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was drastically deteriorating,

• while there had been “unconscionable death and suffering” in Gaza. Volker Türk, UN high commissioner for human rights, said as of 15 June, 528 Palestinians, 133 of them children, had been killed by Israeli security forces or settlers since October, in some cases raising “serious concerns of unlawful killings”

• The conflict in Gaza has created unprecedented soil, water and air pollution in the region,

• a United Nations report said on Tuesday. Israel’s official social media account accused the UN, under the leadership of secretary-general António Guterres, of becoming “a tool for Hamas propaganda”

• Israeli police last night dispersed anti-government protesters from outside Benjamin Netanyahu’s house.

• The protest called for immediate elections and the release of the remaining hostages being held captive in Gaza. Police were criticised for the use of what protest organisers called “the illegal use of force”, with video footage appearing to show one woman being dragged by her hair as police attempted to arrest her, and reports that the eyesight of a doctor is threatened after she was struck by water cannon. Nissim Vaturi, a lawmaker in Netanyahu’s party, said anti-government protesters were “a branch of Hamas”

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