Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

29 January 2025 00:01 GMT

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed  that US President Donald Trump invited his Israeli counterpart to the White House. Israel said the invite was for 4 February, but the White House did not confirm an exact day. 

Meanwhile, in the Middle East, Israel launched attacks in Lebanon and the occupied West Bank. 

The injury tolls from Israeli attacks on the southern Lebanese towns of Nabatieh and Zawtar stood at 24 people and were rising. 

In the occupied West Bank, one Palestinian man was killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid in Tulkarm, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. Israel also attacked several villages west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news agency, Wafa. 

Here's what else you need to know about Monday's developments in Israel's war on Gaza:

  • More than 376,000 Palestinians have returned to their homes in northern Gaza, the UN said
  • The US pulled 90 Patriot air defence interceptors from Israel this week to send them to Ukraine
  • US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff met on Tuesday with senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein al-Sheikh in Saudi Arabia
  • US officials told their Israeli counterparts that the US plans to withdraw thousands of US soldiers from Syria