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Israel-Gaza live updates: Netanyahu asks hostage families for forgiveness

"We were close, but we did not succeed," Netanyahu said.

ByBill Hutchinson, David Brennan, and Emily Shapiro
Last Updated: September 2, 2024, 2:30 PM EDT

As the Israel-Hamas war continues, the latest round of cease-fire discussions appears to have reached an impasse.

Meanwhile, after six hostages were found dead in Gaza, protests erupted in Israel. Protesters have demanded its government bring the hostages home.

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9 hours and 50 minutes ago

Protesters break through barriers near Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's residence

Protesters broke through barriers near Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem on Monday as they demanded progress on a deal to return the hostages in Gaza.

Israeli border guards prevent a demonstrator from trying to remove a barricade near the Israeli Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024, during an anti-government protest.
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Demonstrators march during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages held captive since the October 7 attacks by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, in the coastal city of Tel Aviv, Sept. 2, 2024.
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Protesters supporting the families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, place six mock-coffins outside the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Sept. 2, 2024.
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Monday marks the second day of large protests across Israel after six murdered hostages were recovered in Gaza this weekend.

10 hours and 36 minutes ago

Israeli defense minister 'deeply disheartened' by UK decision to suspend some arms exports to Israel

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a statement he was "deeply disheartened" to learn of the United Kingdom’s new restrictions on some arms exports to Israel.

"This comes at a time when we fight a war on 7 different fronts -- a war that was launched by a savage terrorist organization, unprovoked," Gallant said. "At a time when we mourn 6 hostages who were executed in cold blood by Hamas inside tunnels in Gaza. At a time when we fight to bring 101 hostages home."

U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy told Parliament on Monday about 30 of 350 export licenses are suspended because "there does exist a clear risk that they might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law."

-ABC News’ Jordana Miller

12:26 PM EDT

29 Palestinians killed in West Bank since IDF operation began

Twenty-nine Palestinians have been killed and 121 have been injured in the West Bank since the Israeli military's operation began last Wednesday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement Monday.

An Israeli military bulldozer tears up a road littered with rubble during an army raid in Jenin, West Bank, Sept. 2, 2024.
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Eighteen people were killed in the Jenin governate of the West Bank, four in the Tubas governate, four in the Tulkarm governate and three in the Hebron governate, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

-ABC News’ Nasser Atta

12:23 PM EDT

Biden, Harris meet with US hostage deal negotiating team

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with the U.S. hostage deal negotiating team in the Situation Room on Monday, according to the White House.

Biden and Harris received an update from the negotiation team on the "status of the bridging proposal outlined by the United States, Qatar and Egypt" and "they discussed next steps" in the release of the hostages, the White House said.

Biden also "expressed his devastation and outrage at the murder" of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages and he "reaffirmed the importance of holding Hamas’s leaders accountable," the White House said.

Thousands of protesters lift flags and placards during an anti-government rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian militants in Gaza since October, in Tel Aviv, Sept. 1, 2024.
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Officials participating in the briefing included Secretary of State Antony Blinken, CIA Director Bill Burns and national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

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