Late night update

Dear MEE readers, 

The death toll from an Israeli attack on a school in Nuseirat refugee camp run by the Unrwa aid agency, where hundreds of people were reportedly sheltering, has reached at least 15 people. 

The strike on the UN-run Abu Araban site in central Gaza's Nuseirat camp was the fifth on a school-turned-shelter in eight days.

The Abu Araban school was housing "thousands of displaced people", according to civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal, who added that most of the dead were women and children. 

More updates from this evening include:

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet US President Joe Biden at the White House two days before the Israeli PM is scheduled to address Congress later this month.

• The United Kingdom is going to donate $7m to UK-Med, a humanitarian medical NGO, to support Gaza relief work, according to Foreign Secretary David Lammy.

• Israel’s government has approved a plan to temporarily extend compulsory military service for men to 36 months

• UK Foreign Minister David Lammy met with his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts, calling for "an immediate ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages, the protection of civilians, unfettered access to aid in Gaza, and a pathway towards a two-state solution".

• In a post to X social media, the Israeli army said that its air force attacked infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in the areas of Meiss el-Jabal, Aita al-Shaab, Beni Hayyan and Houla.