Morning recap

Good morning Middle East Eye readers, If you're just joining us, here are key developments from across the region: • Iran has announced seven conditions for starting any negotiations to the US government, Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council has said. • Pakistan's interior minister, Mohsin Naqvi, is set to visit Tehran on Sunday to meet with senior Iranian officials. Tehran does not expect him to deliver any specific message related to mediation efforts over the war with the US. • The US government has told its citizens currently in the Middle East that the security environment remains "complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation", urging them to exercise heightened vigilance. • Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said that Turkey and other countries have proposed new conditions to the US and Iran to end the war. • Dozens of Palestinians were detained in the occupied West Bank, while settlers cut down guava trees and attacked Palestinians. • Pop Star Ed Sheeran has said what is happening in Gaza is “catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate” as he opened his solo concert in the US city of Philadelphia. • Thousands of Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Buraq Wall plaza, west of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied Jerusalem, and performed Talmudic rituals. • The Israeli military says its forces have killed a Hamas commander, Muhammad Suleiman Byouk, in Khan Younis in Gaza on Thursday. • Dozens of Palestinian supporters demonstrated outside Ed Sheeran concert in Philadelphia, denouncing promoters’s decision to drop US rapper Macklemore over his “Free Palestine” calls.