Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Morning update

9 March 2025 09:37 GMT

Good morning MEE readers, 

Here are some of key developments from the last few hours:

  •  Two Palestinian were killed and several others wounded on Sunday morning by Israeli gunfire in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City

  • The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, said on Saturday night that mass forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza was "pure fantasy" and would be considered "one of the greatest violations of international law in recent centuries"

  • A man who scaled Big Ben's Elizabeth Tower at London's Palace of Westminster early on Saturday holding a Palestine flag came down after 16 hours and was subsequently arrested

  • Several meetings have taken place between leaders of Hamas and US hostage affairs envoy Adam Boehler, an adviser to Hamas' leader told Reuters on Sunday 

  • Israeli forces detained at least 13 people in fresh raids across Hebron, al-Bireh, and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank

  • The Trump administration's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, will fly to Doha on Tuesday evening to attempt to “broker a new hostage-release and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas”, Axios reported