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

1 May 2025 05:56 BST

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the key developments overnight:

  • Four current and former University of Texas at Austin students sued the college and Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday, alleging they faced unlawful arrest and retaliatory discipline for demonstrating against Israel's assault on Gaza.

  • Haaretz reported that Yehuda Cohen, father of the csptive Nimrod Cohen, said Wednesday that the far-right extremists in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government are taking advantage of the events of October 7, 2023, "to conquer Gaza and establish settlements."

  • US President Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday his government may stop giving grants to Harvard University, which has refused to concede to his demands regarding hiring, administration and speech regulation.

  • Israeli settlers set Palestinian agricultural land on fire in the occupied West Bank, according to a security source cited by Haaretz.

  • Palestinian designer Mariam Muhammad Karaz died from injuries sustained in an earlier Israeli air strike on a cafeteria in Deir al-Balah, while a fresh strike overnight killed Abdul Rahman Muhammad Al-Maghari in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, according to the Palestinian Information Center.