Morning update

Live Blog Update| War on Iran 1 October 2026 07:57 BST Good morning Middle East Eye readers, Here are the latest developments: The bodies and remains of 105 Palestinians were recovered from beneath the rubble of a residential block over the span of a little over two weeks, the Civil Defense said. The 17-day search was conducted in al-Taj area, located in central Gaza City. The Civil Defense said the recovery operation was carried out in coordination with an Egyptian committee. Iran’s mission to the UN said its delegation left New York on Monday as per schedule, dismissing reports that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the delegation to leave the country immediately. "Having achieved nothing, the State Department has resorted to propagating baseless and worthless news," Iran’s UN mission wrote in a post on X. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed that it was too early to say who was behind the foiled bid to crash a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv after he was asked whether there was any indication of Iranian involvement in the incident. The leader of Iraqi paramilitary group Kataib Hezbollah, Ahmad al-Hamdawi, announced that military activities will be suspended "with the exception of targeting hostile aircraft violating the country’s airspace" , The Associated Press reported. US President Donald Trump said in response to a question about a deal with Iran that maybe the US will "blow them up". "Maybe you blow them up. You have to make that decision. We blow them up, we make a deal, but the time is coming," he told reporters in the Oval Office. "It will end very soon one way or the other," Trump added.