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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Good morning Middle East Eye readers,</p>
<p>US-Iran talks are reportedly in their "final stages", as Tehran reviews Washington's response.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu argued that the delay in attacking Tehran only benefits Iranians, according to the CNN citing US officials and Israeli sources.</p>
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<p>In the most most widely backed proposal before the UN Security Council, 137 countries are supporting a draft resolution on the Strait of Hormuz which seeks to "protect international waterways", Al Jazeera reported. </p>
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<p>The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Adalah, said that activists who were captured by Israel from the Gaza-bound Global Sumud aid flotilla were subjected to electric shocks as well as physical and psychological abuse.</p>
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<p>Hezbollah said it carried out 24 military operations over the past day targeting Israeli forces, military vehicles and positions across southern Lebanon. The attacks included drone strikes and rocket barrages.</p>
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<p>The US has failed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz despite a "thousand tricks", the political deputy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy was quoted as saying by Iran’s semi-official news agency ISNA. </p>
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<p>The US Treasury Department has lifted sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, according to information published on the department’s website.</p>
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