Morning everyone. Benjamin Netanyahu is defying Joe Biden over any postwar peace plan, saying Israel will only agree to a deal that would see the country gain security control over the entire Gaza Strip. The Israel prime minister told a news conference on Thursday: “In any future arrangement … Israel needs security control [of] all territory west of the Jordan. This collides with the idea of sovereignty. What can you do?”
In other news, the Socceroos are into the last 16 of the Asian Cup in Qatar, and it was a late, late show at Melbourne Park.