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By Aljazeera
- Lebanon has welcomed a deal with Israel to extend a nominal ceasefire, which was due to expire on Sunday, by 45 days after talks in the United States, while Israeli forces continued attacking southern Lebanese towns and villages, killing at least a dozen people on Friday, including three paramedics.
- Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said at a meeting of BRICS countries that Tehran has received communication from the Trump administration indicating openness to new talks to end the war, though a “deadlock” remains regarding “enriched material”.
- US President Donald Trump indicated he may be receptive to Iran placing its civilian nuclear programme on hold for two decades as long as Tehran’s commitment is sincere.
- Hamas has yet to comment on claims by Israel that it carried out an assassination attack on the group’s senior military commander in Gaza, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, with at least seven people reported killed, including women and children, in strikes on a residential building and car west of Gaza City.
- Palestinians have commemorated 78 years of Nakba, or “catastrophe”, marking Zionist military forces’ expulsion of at least 750,000 people from their homes and land, capturing 78 percent of historic Palestine, for the founding of Israel in 1948.
