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Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza

Evening Recap

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

Our blog will soon be closing for the day. Here are some of today's main developments:

  • Hamas said it would delay the release of the next tranch of Israeli captives "until further notice", accusing Israel of failing to comply with the terms of the ceasefire deal

  • US President Donald Trump said Palestinians would have no right of return to Gaza under his plan for the United States to take over the territory

  • Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has issued a decree revoking the payment system of “financial allowances for the families of Palestinian prisoners, martyrs and injured”

  • Dozens of Palestinian families fled on Monday from the Nur Shams refugee camp on the outskirts of Tulkarm in the north of the occupied West Bank as Israel pushed on with a sweeping military operation

  • Israeli forces detained the owners of the Scientific Library, Mahmoud and Ahmed Mona, and seized books during a raid on Salah al-Din Street in Jerusalem, according to the Wafa news agency

  • The Kremlin says it is waiting for more details on the US president’s plan to buy the Gaza Strip, an idea that has sparked condemnation from many countries, Reuters news agency reported