This is an entry from: Gaza live: Several dead including Hezbollah commander after Israeli strike on southern Beirut
Morning update
6 September 2024 07:46 BST
Good morning Middle East Eye readers,
Here are the latest updates:
- Israeli attacks on Gaza City's Zaytoun and Sabra neighbourhoods have killed six and three Palestinians respectively
- Israeli forces have withdrawn from Jenin, occupied West Bank following ten days of intense deadly operations there, with Palestinians worried about their potential return, the Wafa news agency reports
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that 90 percent of the Gaza ceasefire deal has been agreed on, but some "critical issues" remain, such as the Philadelphi corridor between Gaza and Egypt, which Israel insists on keeping a presence on
- Blinken also said that a Gaza ceasefire deal would make Saudi-Israeli normalisation feasible before the end of Biden's presidency
- Speaking to Fox News, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that "there’s not a deal in the making" and that comments from the White House regarding closeness to a Gaza deal were inaccurate