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Fourteen Israel nationals and three foreign nationals released on Sunday as ceasefire holds.
20:24
In a phone call with US president Joe Biden on Sunday, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that at the end of the truce, Israel will resume its military operations in Gaza with full force, Reuters reports.
However, he also said that he welcomed the possibility of freeing ten hostages for each extra day of truce.
20:04
Here are some images and videos emerging on social media of demonstrators in New York City on Sunday calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza where nearly 15,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes in the last seven weeks:
UNRWA chief: current state of Gaza aid ‘hardly enough for humanitarian response’
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The current state of aid in Gaza is “hardly enough for humanitarian response if we want to reverse the impact of the siege of Gaza Strip”, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said on Sunday.
In an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation, Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said that a lot more aid is required in Gaza.
He said:
Since … the beginning of the truce, we have seen a significant increase of trucks entering into Gaza. I would say on the first day we had an average of 40 trucks, which was far, far, far too little compared to the immense need in the Gaza Strip. And now I would say over the last few days, we had an average of 160 to 200 trucks crossing Rafah and entering into Gaza. Having said that, I do believe that the 200 are hardly enough for the humanitarian response if we want to reverse the impact of the siege in the Gaza Strip, but we need also commercial flow.
19:24
Three Palestinian students were shot and wounded in Vermont on Saturday night, prompting the Palestinian foreign ministry to call for the “arrest, investigation, accountability and publishing of the investigation results”.
The students, who Palestinian officials identified as Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ahmed and Kinnan Abdalhamid, were on their way to a family dinner when they were shot and wounded.
The head of the Palestinian mission to the UK, Husam Zomlot, said that each of the victims were wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh when they were attacked.
In a statement on Twitter/X, the Palestinian foreign ministry said that it “strongly condemned” the attacks and called on authorities to swiftly investigate the attacks and hold those responsible to account.
The shootings, for which police have not announced any suspects or arrests, come amid a rise in Islamophobia and anti-Arab sentiments across the US, in addition to antisemitism following the escalation of violence between Israel and Hamas on 7 October.
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19:05
Hamas announced in a statement on Sunday that it is seeking to extend its four-day truce with Israel should serious efforts be made to increase the number of Palestinian detainees released from Israel, Reuters reports.
The statement comes following three rounds of releases so far of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons over the last three days.
19:00
Here are some images coming through the newswires of Palestinians who were released from Israeli prisons entering Ramallah on Sunday evening as part of a truce between Israel and Hamas:
