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Morning recap Good morning Middle East Eye readers, If you're just joining us, here are key developments from across the region: • Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei calls the US and Israel the “sworn enemies” of Muslim unity, stressing the need for greater solidarity across the Muslim-majority world. • Iran’s Pres

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Morning recap

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

If you're just joining us, here are key developments from across the region:

•    Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei calls the US and Israel the “sworn enemies” of Muslim unity, stressing the need for greater solidarity across the Muslim-majority world.

•    Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran does not seek war but will stand firmly against any aggressor, stressing that no power can force a nation determined to resist its surrender.

•    Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy rejected US claims that the Strait of Hormuz was open, calling them an attempt to control oil prices and conceal what it described as US failures.

•    Israeli strikes killed three Palestinians in al-Amal neighbourhood in Khan Younis and Gaza City's Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood.

•    Masked Israeli settlers attacked an NBC News team and a Palestinian woman on Saturday in Jalud, a village near Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

•    Israel will attack Iran again if it tries to rebuild its nuclear or missile programmes, Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen said.

•    Israeli president calls Qusra settler attack 'stain on Israel's face', joining Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in condemnation of the attack.

•    Amnesty International calls for Palestinian paediatrician Dr Abu Safiya's release as he marks 600 days in Israeli imprisonment.

•    Egypt, Kuwait urge return to US-Iran negotiations and de-escalation.

•    Israeli forces close entrance to occupied West Bank village while settlers steal sheep.

•    Amnesty urges action after Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz threatens expulsions of people over Gaza kites.