By Mersiha Gadzo and Usaid Siddiqui

      At least 64 people killed, 186 wounded in Israeli attacks on homes in central Gaza in the past 24 hours, a medical source tells Al Jazeera.

      The Israeli war cabinet will meet to discuss captive-prisoner exchanges as Netanyahu vows to continue the war.

      President Biden’s administration again bypasses Congress on weapons sales to Israel.

      At least 21,672 people killed and 56,165 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll from the October 7 attack in Israel stands at 1,139.

    US support for Israel amid Gaza war unlikely to be ‘unlimited’

    While the Biden administration continues to back Israel, ongoing support from the White House is unlikely to be “unlimited” as the US enters election season, analyst Adel Abdel Ghafar said.

    “Biden is deeply unpopular. Most polls indicate that he’s losing support – especially with younger Democrat voters,” Ghafar, director of the Foreign Policy and Security Program at Middle East Council, told Al Jazeera.

    “This war will potentially impact his re-election. So we will see that as the US enters the new year, it will put more pressure on Israel to wrap up the war.”

    On Friday, the US government, for a second time, bypassed Congress to greenlight an emergency weapons sale to Israel, despite growing international outrage over the war in Gaza.

    One Palestinian killed in Rafah in Israeli attack

    A Palestinian has been killed by Israeli fire from a gunboat off the shore of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

    We earlier reported at least 10 people were injured in an Israeli attack on Khan Younis, also located in the southern region.

    Israeli gov’t responsible for October 7 attack: Minister

    The Israeli newspaper Maariv has quoted Foreign Minister Eli Cohen as saying that the Israeli government bears responsibility for the attack on October 7 and that an investigation committee must be formed to hold those who were negligent accountable.

    Cohen added that talking about settlement in the Gaza Strip is “premature” and that restoring security “comes first”.

    “There will be no Hamas, and we will return the kidnapped ones. We will take security control of Gaza,” he was quoted as saying.