Morning recap

Good Morning Middle East Eye readers, If you are just joining us, here are key developments from across the region and beyond: * Yemen's government has said more than 1,400 Houthi fighters were "neutralised" in more than 2,750 precision strikes its forces carried out during military operations over the past 24 hours. * The Kremlin has said US President Donald Trump welcomed Russia’s involvement in efforts aimed at reaching a settlement over Iran, Reuters reported. * Israeli forces have killed a 32-year-old Palestinian man, Shadi Ahmad Ibrahim Ajarma, near the Nabi Yunis junction, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on late Friday. * US President Donald Trump has said Washington’s sanctions on the International Criminal Court were intended to defend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others from prosecution, not himself. * Israel has carried out 280 armed incursions into Syria in September and currently detains 49 Syrians, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has said. *US Central Command (Centcom) has said it redirected 133 commercial vessels as of 9 October through the Strait of Hormuz to enforce naval blockade against Iran. * Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for a new “CIS + Iran” format, using his first appearance as a special guest at the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit in Turkmenistan to pitch Tehran as the region’s gateway to open waters. * Hormuz oil exports were “sharply lower,” falling to a seven-day average of 9.9 million barrels per day as of October 7, 42 percent below prewar levels and down from about 15.5 million in September, according to Kpler data cited by the Financial Times. * Tomoko Akane, the president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has urged member nations to actively defend the institution after the United States imposed sanctions on it. * US President Donald Trump has called this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay a “mystery person” and lamented the Nobel committee’s decision not to award him the prize, calling it “disgraceful and embarrassing”. * The United States Mission to the United Nations has called on the Houthis to stop their attacks "against the legitimate governments of Yemen and Saudi Arabia", while demanding that Iran end its support to the group.