Billions of dollars in foreign aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan have advanced in the US Senate, heading for a final vote just days after the House of Representatives abruptly ended a months-long stalemate and approved the assistance.

The Senate voted 80-19 in favour of advancing the package of four bills passed by the House, far more than the 60 votes needed to pave the way for a final vote as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday.

One of the bills would provide $26bn for Israel.

Biden has promised to sign the legislation as soon as it passes the Senate.

Paul O’Brien, the executive director of Amnesty International USA, said Israeli forces in Gaza are committing war crimes against Palestinian people using “US-made munitions”.

In a post on social media, O’Brien said research by the global rights group shows that war crimes are being committed in the Palestinian territory by Israeli forces and the US must stop sending weapons to Israel.

O’Brien also thanks 37 members of the US Congress who voted no to the Israel arms bill that will see $26.38bn in military aid provided to Israeli forces.

The US military aid package, according to reports, will restock missiles for Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling defence systems, boost depleted military supplies amid Israel’s war on Gaza, and provide some $3.5bn for “advanced weapons systems” among other provisions.

The Jamaican government says it has “taken a decision to recognise the State of Palestine” amid concerns over Israel’s war on Gaza and the “ever-deepening humanitarian crisis” in the Palestinian territory.

“The decision is aligned with Jamaica’s strong commitment to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, which seek to engender mutual respect and peaceful co-existence among states, as well as the recognition of the right of people to self-determination,“ the country’s ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement.

Jamaica’s Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith said her country wanted to see “a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through diplomatic dialogue rather than military actions”.

Lazzarini says increase in aid trucks to Gaza needs to be sustained

The AP news agency says satellite photos show the expansion of tents set up near Rafah in southern Gaza as the Israeli military prepares for a ground offensive on the area where more than 1 million Palestinian people have sought shelter from the war.

A Palestinian health official told the AP that the tent camp was being set up to house displaced people who are now sheltering in a hospital and is not related to the impending Israeli military operation.

Aid workers and foreign governments are warning of a catastrophe should Israeli troops invade Rafah.

The US will soon begin construction of a pier to boost aid deliveries by sea to Gaza, the Pentagon said. “All the necessary vessels are within the Mediterranean region and standing by,” Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder told journalists.

“We are positioned to begin construction very soon,” Ryder said.

According to the French news agency AFP, the US plans to establish an offshore platform for the transfer of aid from larger to smaller vessels, and a pier to bring it ashore in the Gaza Strip.

US officials have said the construction will not involve US soldiers on the ground in Gaza, but troops will come close to Gaza as they construct the pier. Israeli forces will provide security for the construction operation, AFP reports.

At least three Palestinians have been shot with live ammunition by Israeli forces in Beit Ummar, on the northern outskirts of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

It said several others suffered tear gas inhalation during confrontations with Israeli soldiers, which broke out shortly after Israeli forces raided the town.

Those shot have been taken to a nearby hospital, and their conditions have been described as “moderate”.

There are more than 3,660 Palestinians held in administrative detention by Israel, the Palestinian Prisoners Club, an advocacy organisation, says.

The unprecedented figure includes Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the besieged Gaza Strip. Among them are 22 women and more than 40 children, it said.

Prior to October 7, some 1,320 Palestinians were held in administrative detention. The widely criticised practice involves holding Palestinians on secret evidence, without charge or trial, indefinitely.

Israeli forces have raided several towns and villages in the occupied West Bank, mainly areas in and around the Jenin governorate, the Wafa news agency reports. These include the villages of Rummanah, Taybeh and Anin, west of Jenin, as well as the village of al-Fandaqumiya, south of Jenin.

Israeli soldiers launched a “massive search campaign”, Wafa said, but did not report any arrests. It said these raids come as Israeli forces continue their raid of Jalbun, east of Jenin, for a second consecutive day.

At least four others were wounded in the air strike that hit a residential home in the Salam neighbourhood in southern Gaza’s Rafah, reports Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, citing Gaza Civil Defence crews and paramedics on the scene.

According to Mahmoud, those who lost their lives include a father and his son, and the injured all belong to the same family.

Several Palestinians have been killed and wounded in various attacks across Gaza in the past several hours, the Wafa news agency has reported.

A series of Israeli air strikes hit areas in northern and central Gaza, Wafa said. Gaza City’s Zeitoun and Tuffah neighbourhoods were targeted and several people were “killed and wounded”, it said.

Israeli air attacks also destroyed a tower and a shopping centre on Jalaa Street in Gaza City, while Israeli forces launched artillery attacks east of the Shujayea neighbourhood.

In central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, a vehicle was hit in an air strike, killing at least one person and wounding several others. Both the Breij and Nuseirat refugee camps came under attack, as well.

In northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, Israeli forces targeted a residential home. In Beit Lahiya, “violent and continuous” air raids forced hundreds of families to flee their homes.

We are receiving reports from our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that four people have been killed in an Israeli bombing near a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and that Israeli forces have fired artillery shells at the Zeitoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City.

An Israeli air strike also hit a site in az-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip.

The north Gaza areas of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoon and east of Jabalia have come under sustained Israeli artillery shelling, our colleagues in Al Jazeera Arabic report.

The attacks following a warning on Tuesday evening by Avichay Adraee, an Israeli army spokesperson, for Palestinians residents to immediately evacuate designated areas of Beit Lahiya, which he described as a “dangerous combat zone”.

The Israeli army “will use extreme force against terrorist infrastructure and subversive elements in the region”, he warned.