JD Vance insists truce is ‘durable’ and repeats Trump threat to ‘obliterate’ Hamas if group fails to comply – as it happened

During Israel visit US VP also accuses media of ‘desire to root for failure’ amid fears over ceasefire violations. This live blog is closedGaza’s Government Media Office has posted to Telegram to say only 986 aid trucks have entered the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire began just over a week ago, out of the 6,600 trucks that it says were supposed to have arrived by Monday evening.Gaza’s Government Media Office said:The humanitarian convoys included (14) trucks loaded with cooking gas and (28) diesel trucks designated to operate bakeries, generators, hospitals and various vital sectors, in light of the severe shortage of these vital materials that the population directly depends on for daily life, after long months of siege and systematic destruction caused by the genocide committed by the “Israeli” occupation against our people in the Gaza Strip.We note that the average number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip daily since the ceasefire began does not exceed (89) trucks out of (600) trucks that are supposed to enter daily, which reflects the continued policy of strangulation, starvation and humanitarian blackmail practiced by the occupation against more than (2.4) million citizens in Gaza. Continue reading...