Morning update

Good Morning Middle East Eye readers,

If you are just joining us, here are key developments from across the region and beyond:

*Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said Hormuz could be reopened within two days if Washington agrees to a set of conditions, including the formal recognition of the new shipping route designated by Iran and Oman in the Strait of Hormuz.

*Iran is debating whether to maintain its longstanding ban on nuclear weapons if hostilities resume, though no decision has been taken on any change, Iranian Security Council chief Mohsen Rezaei said.

*US President Donald Trump has said Iran wants to “make a deal” and that negotiations are “going fine”, but questioned Tehran's reliability.

*Iran's Foreign Ministry on Sunday designated Britain's Royal Navy and Royal Air Force as "terrorist" organisations, in retaliation for what it described as hostile actions by the British government.

*A Palestinian man died on Sunday morning from wounds sustained when Israeli occupation forces shot him in al-Musaddar village, in the central Gaza Strip, Wafa reported.

*Ebrahim Azizi, Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Parliament, has said the country's armed forces will respond to any new threats with "an immediate and harsher reply than before".

*At least three civilians were wounded in two air raids by Saudi-led coalition forces on an oil facility in Bajil district in western Hodeidah governorate of Yemen.

* Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot has set out four conditions for forming a new government, including recognising Hamas as a "terrorist" organisation.

*Lebanon's Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji has called for a complete Israeli withdrawal from occupied Lebanese territories, while urging Gulf states to support efforts to restore Lebanon's sovereignty.

* United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says he is “appalled” by the death of UN staff member Mohammad el-Shami in Houthi custody in Yemen.

*The United States Central Command has said that as of 31 October, its forces have redirected 144 commercial vessels as part of its "ironclad" naval blockade against Iran.

* Ninety-four-year-old Margaret Owen has been arrested again under the Terrorism Act in the United Kingdom for defying the ban on Palestine Action, according to Defend Our Juries.

*Hundreds of Israelis took to the streets on Saturday to urge the opposition to ally with Arab parties to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has gone on the offensive against the minority group's leaders.

* Israeli forces carried out a large explosion in the town of Baraachit, in south Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district, on Saturday evening.