Middle East Eye
🔴 Morning recap: • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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.