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Morning recap: Day 124 of Israel's war on Gaza

7 February 2024 05:53 GMT

Good morning Middle East Eye readers, 

It's 07:50 in Palestine and Israel. Here are the latest developments from Israel's war on Gaza, which enters its 124th day today: 

  • Israeli fighter jets intensified overnight air strikes in Rafah, a small border town with Egypt sheltering over 1.3 million internally displaced civilians. 

  • North of Rafah, Israeli forces tightened their siege of Khan Younis's main hospital, the Nasser Medical Complex, as fighting raged on elsewhere in the city. 

  • A suspected Israeli air strike in Syria's Homs late on Tuesday killed a man, a woman and a child, according to a human rights monitor. 

  • Saudi Arabia rebuffed White House spokesperson John Kirby for saying that a normalisation deal with Israel was separate from a Gaza ceasefire agreement.

  • Riyadh insisted "there will be no diplomatic relations with Israel unless an independent Palestinian state is recognised on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, and that the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip stops and all Israeli occupation forces withdraw from the Gaza Strip".