Benjamin Netanyahu
The bill would have mandated military service for the ultra-Orthodox community, which had threatened to topple the government over a draft during wartime.
Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway said Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have "incited extremist violence" against Palestinians.
The latest friction in negotiations comes as the fighting nears 20 months of war.
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The strikes have killed at least 22 children since dawn, as the Israeli military intensifies its attacks while refusing to end its widely condemned aid blockade.
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff confirmed that the militant group will free Israeli American soldier Edan Alexander for a ceasefire and an end to the aid blockade.
Israeli strikes killed at least 49 people in the past 24 hours, according to health officials.
Israel cut off entry of all food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza on March 2.
Israel imposed a monthlong blockade on food, fuel and humanitarian aid that has left the territory’s roughly 2 million Palestinians facing acute shortages.
The military has razed homes, farmland and infrastructure around Gaza's border to the point of uninhabitability, potentially leading to long-term control.