Updates: Netanyahu meets Trump as Israeli attacks continue in Gaza

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To read more about new video evidence showing Israeli forces firing on ambulances in an attack that killed 15 emergency workers in southern Gaza, see here.

For more on UN revelations that at least 100 children have been killed or wounded every day in Gaza since Israel broke the ceasefire with Hamas, read this story.

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We will be closing this live page soon. Here’s a recap of the day’s developments:

• Trump and Netanyahu claim they are trying to secure the release of captives in Gaza.
• The US president also says his administration is in “direct talks” with Iran on Tehran’s nuclear programme.
• The UN says nearly 400,000 Palestinians have been displaced since Israel ended the ceasefire in Gaza in mid-March.
• Hamas has slammed the US for claiming it “uses ambulances and, more broadly, human shields for terrorism”.
• Palestinians across occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank have held a general strike in solidarity with Gaza.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel is preventing the entry of polio vaccines into Gaza, threatening the gains made in seven months of efforts to combat the spread of an epidemic.

On World Health Day, the ministry said sanitary conditions across Gaza were deteriorating amid the disruption of water pumps and the ban on food and medical aid.

It added that Palestinians, especially children, were exposed to malnutrition as well as the spread of diarrhoea, skin diseases and epidemics.

Israel has been accused of acting with “impunity” as British MPs raise concerns that two parliamentarians were stopped from entering the country.

Labour MP Sarah Owen said it was “regrettable that the Israeli government is now acting with impunity”.

“They seem to be accountable to no international law. Enabled by the US president, they continue to bomb hospitals and schools, killing aid workers and thousands of Palestinian civilians.

“Today, Breaking the Silence reported further executions as well as the destruction of homes by the [Israeli army], and now this, banning members of our parliament from entering.”

More than 200 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023, making it the deadliest ever conflict for journalists.

“There’s nothing new in the Israeli occupation’s crimes against journalists,” Jad Shahrour,  spokesperson for the Samir Kassir Foundation, told Al Jazeera. “Israel deliberately bombs journalists because it doesn’t want anyone to report the situation.”

Read more here.

The leaders discussed the need to reach a ceasefire in Gaza and release Israeli captives, according to the Egyptian presidency.

Israel’s relentless attacks have lead to “large-scale civilian casualties” and displaced 400,000 people in Gaza, the United Nations secretary-general’s spokesman said.

“Survivors across Gaza are being displaced repeatedly and forced into an ever-shrinking space where their basic needs just cannot be met,” said Stephane Dujarric.

Netanyahu acted like a “crime lord” while dismissing Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, opposition leader Yair Lapid says.

“Netanyahu tried to use the Shin Bet to plot and eliminate a political opponent,” Lapid said on X.

“This is not the behaviour of a prime minister, this is the behaviour of a crime lord.”

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that at least two Palestinians were killed and many others wounded in an Israeli attack on a house south of Deir el-Balah.

At least 46 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes across Gaza since dawn today, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

Israeli forces have fired tear gas at villagers during a raid in Beita, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to the Wafa news agency.

The report added that several Palestinians were treated at the scene after the raid.

Abraham Ngusi was expelled from the African Union’s headquarters after member states refused to participate in an annual meeting commemorating the victims of the Rwandan genocide with the ambassador, according to Israeli media.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein was quoted as saying: “It is outrageous that at an event commemorating the victims of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, to which the Israeli ambassador in Addis Ababa was invited, the African Union Commission chairman from Djibouti chose to introduce anti-Israeli political elements.”

Here are some of the major talking points on Gaza from the briefing with the US president:

• “We are trying very hard to get the hostages out … Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything.”
• “I’d like to see the war stop, and I think the war will stop at some point, that won’t be in the too distant future.”
• “We are looking at another ceasefire; we’ll see what happens.”
• “We’re having direct talks with Iran, and they’ve started. It’ll go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting, and we’ll see what can happen.”
• “Maybe a deal’s going to be made, that would be great. But if not, Iran will be in great danger.”