Morning update

Good morning Middle East Eye readers.

Here are the most recent key developments:

• Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday revived calls to "allow" Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip, as the military prepares a broader offensive in the territory.

• New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Wednesday that Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu had “lost the plot” as the country weighs up whether to recognise a Palestinian state.

• A US judge on Tuesday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to restore a part of the federal grant funding that it recently suspended for the University of California, Los Angeles, after Trump had threatened to cut federal funds for universities over student protests against Israel's war on Gaza.

• United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Israel on Tuesday that he has significant concerns about patterns of certain forms of sexual violence by their armed and security forces, according to a report seen by Reuters.

• Norway's sovereign wealth fund is expected to further reduce its holdings in Israeli assets, a senior fund official said Tuesday, a day after announcing it had sold additional parts of its portfolio in the country due to the war.

• Israel is in talks with South Sudan about the potential resettlement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, six sources told the Associated Press.