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According to a report, more than 1,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza in the past days. Reportedly, Israel said they nearly doubled the number of trucks entering Gaza this week. According to the report, the u.n.’s humanitarian coordinator said Israel’s responsibility does not end at getting aid trucks in but also to ensure that aid agencies have the ability to safely distribute the aid.

Reportedly, Iran said they will avoid a major escalation by acting hastily in their response to an alleged israeli strike on their embassy in Damascus which killed a top iranian commander.

According to a report, the eu have placed hamas and islamic jihad who were already designated terrorist organisations on their human rights sanctions list for widespread sexual and gender based violence. Reportedly, the qassam, al quds brigade and nukhba force are subject to an assets freeze.

According to a report, Russia said that a draft Russia Ukraine agreement negotiated in Istanbul in 2022 could be a preliminary for talks to end the war, however the discussions would have to take into consideration new realities, that is new entities have been included in the constitution.

Reportedly, Switzerland’s government said they will host a conference in June for peace talks in Ukraine, and that they hope Russia will join in the peace process some day. According to the report, Russia has dismissed the ukrainian president’s peace plan that consists of a russian withdrawal and paying compensation to Ukraine.

According to reports, three men were rescued by a u.s. coastguard from an island in Micronesia in the Pacific ocean after they sent a message for help using palm leaves. Reportedly, they had been detailed as missing after they went missing during a trip to the uninhabited coral island of Pikelot. According to the report, the men set off from Polewat atoll on Easter Sunday in a 6 metre boat, after failing to return a relative informed the coastguard that her uncles were missing.

Reportedly, searchers noticed the sign, airdropped a radio and survival packages, and a vessel made its way to the island.

According to a report, muslim and jewish members of the interfaith encounter association (iea) shared an ifta, a ramadan evening meal in the courtyard of the finnish evangelical lutheran mission in Jerusalem on Thursday in a bid to send a message of coexistence. Reportedly, the ifta which was sponsored by the u.s. agency for international development brought together around 80 jews, muslims and christians from throughout Israel and Samaria.

According to the report, iea organiser and manager said this year it was particularly significant amid the ongoing war in Gaza and there was a long waiting list to participate. Reportedly, she said, coming here is a statement, many will tell you this is not the time to meet. We’re telling them quite the opposite.

According to the report, the iea is a non profit organisation founded in 2001 during the second palestinian uprising to create a movement for peace. Reportedly, the director established it in the belief that peaceful relations are a prerequisite for any sustainable political solution to the conflict.

According to the report, today the organisation comprises 40 chapters where israelis and palestinians meet around once a month including in the u.s. and Samaria. Reportedly, the iea offers old and new members the chance to meet and connect, organisers talk about a remedy for prejudice and demonisation, saying with the war the images of the other are magnified therefore its important to come together, look at each other in the eye and remind ourselves we can live together.

According to a report, Turkey has imposed trade restrictions on Israel until the event of a ceasefire in Gaza. Reportedly, one of Israel’s harshest critics took the measures after Israel declined to take part in a food aid drop requested by Ankara who have called hamas a liberation group.

According to the report, Turkey’s trade ministry has listed 54 items that will not be exported to Israel who say they will draw up their own inventory of turkish products they will ban. Reportedly, the restrictions which began on Tuesday include cement, steel, iron construction products, machines, electrical goods, soaps, clothing and food.

According to the report, Turkey’s exports to Israel were worth $5.3 billion in 2023. Reportedly, Turkey who normalised relations with Israel in 2022 after years of conflict have provided Gaza with tens of thousands of tonnes of humanitarian aid by land. According to the report, over the weekend Israel said they had managed to increase the flow of aid trucks into Gaza.

According to a report, street protests against poverty and corruption began in Yemen in 2011. Reportedly, poverty was exacerbated when the u.s. paid Saudi Arabia for Yemen’s oil. According to a report, in 2015 the houthi movement began to fight the government and an ongoing civil war ensued.

Reportedly, today poverty in Yemen is immense. According to a report, bread is in short supply and increasing numbers of starving children are brought in to the Al-Sadaqa hospital. Reportedly, a town of houses built by people displaced by hunger from timber and corrugated sheets has grown next to a food aid distribution point. According to the report, Dr Mohammed Rajeh said that the problem of hunger seems to be getting worse. Reportedly, babies are painfully thin with ribs protruding and folds of skin hanging off stick like limbs, their mothers can’t feed them because they are hungry and malnourished.

According to a report, Israel said they are reducing the number of soldiers in southern Gaza but a significant force will remain in the north. Reportedly, the withdrawal is believed to be tactical rather than a sign that the war may be moving towards an end. According to the report, people are moving back home, thousands of people are returning to Khan Younis though homes are demolished and many may have to live in tents.

Reportedly, Israel and hamas are more optimistic following the latest round of talks aimed at a ceasefire. According to the report, the proposed deal is said to include an innitial truce over Eid al- Fitre, a muslim holiday marking the end of ramadan, it falls on April 9; and the release of 40 hostages over 6 weeks. Reportedly, though hamas want a permanent ceasefire, Israel believe that will give hamas a chance to regroup.

According to a report, the u.n.’s international atomic energy agency (iaea) said a strike on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was reckless and a major escalation of the nuclear safety and security dangers facing the plant. Reportedly, the plant which has 6 reactors and is the largest nuclear plant in Europe has been occupied by Russia since 2022. According to the report, the facility which suffered direct hits to the main reactor containment structure has stopped generating power but needs a constant supply of electricity to cool one of its reactors.

Reportedly, last month, the iaea who have a team at Zaporizhzhia said they heard explosions every day for a week. According to the report, they said, for more than two years nuclear safety in Ukraine has been in constant jeopardy.

According to a report, Simon Harris will become Ireland’s taoiseach on Tuesday. Reportedly, he has been a minister in the government of Ireland since 2016, serving as minister for higher education, research, innovation and science and has been a td for the Wicklow constituency since 2011. According to the report, Mr Harris first became involved in politics as a 15 year old when he lobbied to get children with autism spectrum disorders to be integrated into mainstream education. Reportedly, he began in fianna fáil but later joined fine gael. According to the report, he innitially studied journalism and french but dropped out after the first year.

Reportedly, Mr Harris takes over from Leo Varadker who has predicted irish unity in his lifetime but Mr Harris does not want to make this a priority. According to the report, he said, we have a peace process on this island but it is also a frosty peace, I don’t believe we’ve seen the full potential across the island of Ireland through the framework of the Belfast agreement.

According to a report, protesters in Tel Aviv and other cities demanded a hostage deal following the recovery of the body of Elad Katzir, an israeli hostage. Reportedly, the israeli defence force said following information that the body was buried in Khan Younis refugee camp the man’s body was exhumed and returned to Israel.

According to the report, Mr Katzir was abducted from Nir Oz kibbutz along with his mother, she was released along with 104 hostages during a 6 day ceasefire in November, his father Avraham was murdered in the kibbutz.

Reportedly, in January islamic jihad published a video of Mr Katzir speaking from captivity in Gaza. According to the report, in the video he said he had been close to dying more than once, that he loved and missed his family, and he called on the israeli authorities to stop the war and bring him and other hostages home. Reportedly, according to idf estimates he died soon after the video was published.

According to the report, 129 hostages are unaccounted for, 34 are presumed dead.

Reportedly, hamas are sending a delegation to Egypt for new ceasefire talks on Sunday but Israel are undecided whether to attend due to the lack of progress.