• At the White House ceremony Trump promoted the deal as the "dawn of a new Middle East"
• Netanyahu: Israel is filled with "profound gratitude" for the normalisation deal
• The agreement will be presented to the Israeli cabinet and parliament before it takes effect
• Palestinians held protests against the deal across the occupied Palestinian territories on Tuesday
• Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Monday condemned the normalisation agreements and dubbed it a "black day" for the Arab world middleeasteye.net/news/israel-ua…
• Speaking next to Netanyahu, Trump said many Arab countries are moving to normalising ties with Israel "very quickly"
• Trump refused to identify the countries, but he suggested that Saudi Arabia may be amongst them middleeasteye.net/news/trump-fiv…
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- Israeli strikes kill four in southern Gaza
- Hundreds of Palestinians sheltering in Arab American University campus in Jenin
- Trump threatens to cut another $1 billion in Harvard funding
US President Donald Trump is threatening to cut another $1 billion in funding for Harvard University, this time targeting health research, as the administration's row with elite schools for allowing pro-Palestine protests escalates middleeasteye.net/live/israel-wa…
Gaza's civil defence agency on Monday accused the Israeli military of carrying out "summary executions" in the killing of 15 rescue workers last month, rejecting the findings of an internal probe by the army
-13 people in same family killed in Israeli attack on house in Khan Younis
-Israel intercepted a missile launched from Yemen
-38 people killed in US attack on Ras Isa’s port in Yemen
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said on Friday that no ceasefire deal will be reached with Hamas and no humanitarian aid will be allowed into Gaza until the Palestinian group is defeated middleeasteye.net/live/israel-wa…
- Gaza death toll reaches 51,000
- Israeli forces arrest 14 Palestinians in West Bank raids
- Health workers and Nobel laureates issue joint letter demanding end to Gaza war
Here are some of the latest updates from Israel’s war on Gaza:
• Israeli air strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians across Gaza since early Tuesday, Al Jazeera reported. In separate incidents, the outlet cited medical sources saying three were killed in Jabalia camp and six in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood. Separately, Wafa reported Israeli forces killed a Palestinian sheltering in a tent near Gaza City.
• Israeli forces have shot a Palestinian youth at the Qalandiya checkpoint, located north of occupied East Jerusalem, amid raids across the occupied West Bank.
• The New York Times reported that 14 of the 15 paramedics and rescue workers who were killed in Gaza last month were "executed" by Israeli forces as they were shot in the head or chest.
• WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has again urged the protection of health care and called for immediate humanitarian access to deliver health supplies into and across Gaza.
• Jordan’s Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Jafar Hassan discussed "the situation in Gaza and the West Bank" with the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department in Washington, DC.
The Israeli military has claimed that a senior Hamas fighter was killed in a joint operation with the Shin Bet intelligence agency “a few days ago” in Gaza City
- EU to boost financial support to PA
- Israeli forces continue raids in occupied West Bank
- Hamas says it is approaching truce talks in Cairo in 'responsible and positive' manner
Here are some of the latest updates from Israel’s war on Gaza:
- Ireland said it was “appalled” by the Israeli air strike on al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, which led to the death of a Palestinian child, and the forced evacuation of wounded people. Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin described the assault as part of a “wider and deeper unacceptable development in modern warfare”
- A meeting is being held in Cairo between Hamas, Egyptian and Qatari mediators to discuss a ceasefire deal in Gaza, after Israel had broken it in March. The Hamas delegation described its approach to the talks as “responsible and positive”, and said that it was “open to any new proposals so long as they were based on ending the war and ensuring a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza”
- At least three Palestinians have been wounded as Israeli troops raided the Jalazone refugee camp and forced a number of Palestinians from their homes in the Nur Shams refugee camp, according to al-Jazeera Arabic
- The Washington Post reported that the US State Department had decided that there were no proof that links Rumeysa Ozturk, a student who was detained in March by masked immigration agents on the street, to antisemitic activities or support for a “terrorist” organisation, and that there were no sufficient evidence to revoke her visa
- At least six people were killed and 26 others were wounded in suspected US airstrikes around Sanaa, according to the Yemeni Houthi militant group. The Houthis also claimed shooting down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone
-Israeli forces storm Unrwa schools in occupied East Jerusalem
-Israel bombs Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley and Baalbek
-US air strikes slaughter Yemeni civilians, including three children and two women
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry is urging stronger global action to protect Unrwa's work after Israeli authorities closed six of the agency’s schools in occupied East Jerusalem middleeasteye.net/live/israel-wa…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touched down in Washington on Sunday—after taking a detour of roughly 400 kilometres to avoid airspace over countries that might enforce the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant middleeasteye.net/live/israeli-a…