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Evening recap | Middle East Eye

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Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day’s key developments:

  • At least 15 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Monday morning, according to medical sources in Gaza.

  • At least seven people were killed and nearly 30 others wounded in a fresh wave of US air strikes near Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, according to the Houthis, who made the announcement on Monday.

  • A senior Hamas figure said on Monday that a delegation is heading to Qatar soon for another round of indirect talks with Israel aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza.

  • Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest ceasefire conditions, calling them nothing more than a “surrender agreement”.

  • A senior Hamas official has said on Monday that the group is willing to free all the Israeli captives in return for what he described as a “serious prisoner swap” and a guaranteed end to the war.

  • A group of Republican senators, led by Ted Cruz, is pushing forward a bill that targets the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), aiming to strip it of legal immunity in the United States.

  • Saudi news channel Al-Arabiya is quoting sources as saying that the US will press Israel to accept a new proposal for the ceasefire in Gaza.

  • The European Union will increase its financial support for the Palestinian Authority with a three-year package worth around $1.8bn, the European Commissioner responsible for the Middle East told Reuters in an interview.

  • A Palestinian student at Columbia University was arrested in Vermont by US federal agents – right in the middle of a meeting that was supposed to finalise his path to American citizenship.

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