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We're ending our coverage of the continued fighting in Gaza after the first UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire passed on Monday.

• For a full write through of the key lines from across today, click here
• And for a detailed account of the fallout from yesterday's UN vote to end the fighting in Gaza, read this story
• And you can read more about the UN rights expert accusing Israel of acts of genocide - here

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In the south of the Gaza strip, some of those displaced from the conflict are coming together to break their fast during Ramadan.

Dozens sat together next to their tents to eat Iftar, which is the fast-breaking evening meal during the holy month.

The meal was organised by a youth volunteer group in a makeshift camp on the Egyptian border near Rafah.

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As we've been reporting, Israeli strikes have continued in the past 24 hours despite the UN resolution for calling for a ceasefire.

The Israeli military says it has attacked more than 60 targets in Gaza.

Battles have also continued around hospitals in Khan Younis and Gaza City and the IDF said it had carried out airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in north-east Lebanon.

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The White House has announced that the United States will continue dropping essential aid from the air into the Gaza Strip.

This comes after Hamas called for them to end, saying that drowning and stampedes had resulted from people rushing to get aid.

A spokesman for the National Security Council said:

"Air drops are one of the many ways that we are helping to provide desperately-needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and we will continue to do so."

Hamas said that 18 people had died, 12 of them by drowning, while trying to gain access to the dropped food supplies.

Gem O'Reilly
Live reporter

A lot has taken place since yesterday's resolution announcement from the UN, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Here's what's been happening:

• Fighting has continued despite the UN's calls for a ceasefire, with Israel carrying out attacks on more than 60 "terror targets" in Gaza in the last 24 hours
• Israel has claimed UN ceasefire calls have hindered their negotiations with Hamas
• But the US State Department said the UN resolution was passed after Hamas' latest response to hostage release demands
• Al-Amal hospital in southern Gaza is "out of service" after Israeli troops forced medics and patients to evacuate, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society
• The death toll in Gaza has risen to 32,414, according to the Hamas-run Palestinian health ministry, with 81 people killed in the last day
• Hamas says it is sticking to its original position in calling for a full ceasefire, which Israel has called "delusional"
• Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman has said the UN resolution has had no "immediate impact" on the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Hamas
• A UN human rights expert has said she believes Israel has committed "acts of genocide" in Gaza

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"The humanitarian situation in Gaza is hell," says German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock while on a trip to the Middle East, where she met Israeli and Palestinian officials.

Speaking in Tel Aviv, she adds international organisations must be able to deliver aid to Gaza without hindrance.

Baerbock also says Germany had increased its funding to the World Food Programme by an additional 10 million euros (£8.6m).

The Israeli army says it has carried out airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in the north-east Lebanon - the deepest into the country that Israel has struck since the outbreak of cross-border exchanges.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says it struck a Hezbollah military complex, including several buildings and a drone launching pad, in the Zboud area in response to missile fire into Israel earlier in the day.

Other targets, including a Hezbollah observation centre, were struck in areas closer to the Israel-Lebanon border, it adds.

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Yemen's Houthis say they have made six attacks on ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the past three days.

According to a statement published on the Houthi-controlled Saba news agency, the ships targeted include Maersk Saratoga, APL Detroit and Huang Pu - which are all said to be either US or UK affiliated.

Another ship, Pretty Lady, was said to be headed for the Palestinian territories.

Maersk has denied that its vessel had been attacked, the Reuters news agency reports.

US Central Command reported an attack on Huang Pu on Saturday, external but said the vessel, which is Chinese owned and operated, suffered minimal damage.

Houthi spokesman Yahya al-Sarea also said that Houthi forces targeted two US Destroyers and carried out missile attacks on a number of targets near the southern Israeli port city of Eilat.

These claims could not be immediately verified.

Sarea added that all "military operations achieved their objectives successfully".

The Houthis have been targeting merchant vessels for months in response to Israel's assault on Gaza.

British and American ships have also come under attack since the two countries began retaliating with airstrikes in Houthi-held areas of Yemen.

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has insisted that the army should launch its military offensive in Gaza's southern city of Rafah now.

Speaking on Israeli radio channel Non Stop Radio 103FM earlier today, Ben-Gvir, who leads the ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit or "Jewish Power" party and who is known for making controversial remarks, said the Israeli army should enter the city even without US support.

“We must enter Rafah now,” he said.

Israel is under mounting international pressure to halt its plans to launch a military offensive in the southern city, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have fled to for shelter during the fighting elsewhere in the territory.

The US, Israel's strongest ally, is among those who have repeatedly warned against launching such an offensive.

Imogen Foulkes
Reporting from Geneva

The UN special expert on the occupied territories has implored the international community to impose an arms embargo and sanctions on Israel, warning she believes the threshold for genocide has been met in Gaza.

Francesca Albanese was addressing the UN human rights council in Geneva, one day after the UN security council backed an immediate ceasefire.

Albanese, whose report has been rejected by Israel, said there were "reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide against Palestinians as a group in Gaza has been met.

"Specifically, Israel has committed three acts of genocide with the requisite intent: causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group."

She also accused Israel, in its attacks on hospitals, or its restriction of aid supplies it classes as dual use, of using "the camouflage of humanitarian law to characterize the entire Palestinian population and life-sustaining and life-saving infrastructure of Gaza as targetable, killable and destroyable".

In a statement ahead of Albanese’s speech to the council, Israeli said her report was "an obscene inversion of reality".

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has called the situation in Gaza a "humanitarian catastrophe" and said it is a moral and strategic imperative to protect Palestinian civilians, Reuters news agency reports.

Austin made the remarks ahead of a meeting with Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant at the Pentagon in Washington today.

According to US media reports, Gallant is expected to ask for more US weaponry and equipment to support Israel's war in Gaza - a request that is under intense scrutiny from US lawmakers and those who oppose President Joe Biden's administration.

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Strikes are continuing in both northern and southern Gaza, with dozens reported killed and injured, according to the Hamas-run Palestinian health ministry.

Among the places hit is a family compound near Gaza's biggest hospital, al-Shifa in Gaza City, leading to 30 people being killed, Reuters news agency reports, citing a family member of those killed.

The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, also reports that 30 people were killed when a house west of Gaza City owned by the Abu Haseera family was bombed, citing medical sources.

Israel claims it has killed and arrested hundreds of Hamas fighters who were using the hospital as a base - something Hamas and medical staff deny.

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The leader of Hamas says Monday's UN Security Council vote shows that Israel is in "unprecedented isolation", Iran's official news agency IRNA reports.

Speaking during a press conference in Tehran, Ismail Haniyeh adds that Israel's "isolation" shows that "America is unable to impose its will on the world community" - referring to the status of the US as Israel's strongest ally.

Haniyeh adds that Israel's position demonstrates "the unique resistance of Hamas and the Palestinian people".

Speaking about the contents of the Security Council resolution, which calls for an immediate ceasefire during the month of Ramadan and the unconditional release of Israeli hostages, Haniyeh says the resolution has some "shortcomings".

Israel has accused Hamas - which controls the Gaza Strip - of making "delusional" demands over ceasefire negotiations.

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Gaza’s Hamas-run government media office says 18 Palestinians have been killed while trying to collect desperately-needed aid that was airdropped over northern Gaza.

Twelve people drowned when they went in the sea to retrieve food packages, according to a statement. The other six were trampled to death in “stampedes” when other aid packages landed on the ground, it says.

It calls for “an immediate end" to airdrops, calling them "offensive, wrong, inappropriate and useless".

The statement provides no further details about the incidents. However, video obtained by Reuters news agency appeared to show the drowning of at least one person after an airdrop off a beach near the northern town of Beit Lahia on Monday.

It initially shows people running as dozens of aid packages attached to parachutes float down near the coast. People are later seen pulling boxes of “meals ready to eat” (MREs), as military ration packs are commonly called, from the sea.

The footage then cuts to show another man lying motionless on the ground after being pulled from the sea. He does not appear to respond to attempts to revive him with CPR.

“There were martyrs in the sea. Three martyrs approximately,” another man who went in the water says.

Israel - which is under pressure to allow more aid into Gaza via land - says it facilitated airdrops of 159 one-tonne packages of aid over northern Gaza on Monday.

The US says two C-17 aircraft dropped 46,000 MREs over the north on Monday, while the UK says one of its A400M aircraft dropped 10 tonnes of water, rice, cooking oil, flour, tinned goods and baby formula.

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Halt to fighting seems as far off as everpublished at 14:27 Greenwich Mean Time 26 March

14:27 GMT 26 March

Yolande Knell
Middle East correspondent, in Jerusalem

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas of “utter disinterest” in a negotiated ceasefire in Gaza.

He claims the group’s apparent rejection of the latest truce proposal that would see the release of some Israeli hostages shows the “damage” done by the UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire.

Hours after the Security Council voted for an immediate ceasefire and the unconditional release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, the armed group gave its response to the latest truce plan put forward by mediators.

It said it was sticking to its original position calling for a full ceasefire and laid out terms which the Israeli prime minister’s office on Tuesday called “delusional.”

While Qatar, which is acting as a go-between for negotiations, says talks will continue, a halt to the fighting seems as far off as ever.

On the ground, the latest Israeli air strikes have killed dozens of Palestinians at both ends of the Gaza Strip. The area around al-Shifa hospital was hit in the north as well as Rafah in the very south, where more than one million people have sought shelter.

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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has called on Israel to revoke its decision to bar the group from delivering aid to northern Gaza.

It comes two days after UNRWA said it had been told that Israel would no longer approve any of its aid convoys to the north, where many people are reported to be on the brink of starvation.

The agency is currently being investigated after Israel accused at least 12 of its staff of involvement in the 7 October attacks.

Its head, Philippe Lazzarini, has told the Reuters news agency that it has enough funds to last until May, after several countries paused their contributions in the wake of the allegations.

Lazzarini added that he was "hopeful" donors would come back, after some countries recently announced they would resume funding.

If you're just joining us, here's a quick recap of the latest developments in the Israel-Gaza conflict.

• Israel says it has carried out attacks on more than 60 "terror targets" in Gaza in the past day
• At least 18 people have been killed in an airstrike on a residential building in the southern city of Rafah, according to Palestinian media

• The overall death toll in Gaza has risen to 32,414, the Hamas-run Palestinian health ministry reports
• There have also been reports of Hezbollah firing projectiles into northern Israel, although no deaths have been reported
• The latest violence comes after a UN resolution was passed on Monday calling for an immediate ceasefire
• Qatar says the resolution, which passed after the US did not veto it, had had no "immediate effect" on the latest round of negotiations between Israel and Hamas in Doha
• Israel has disputed this, saying Hamas has been emboldened by the UN vote
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed his country would not surrender to Hamas' "delusional demands" in the talks, which are aimed at securing a temporary truce and the release of hostages

Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman says the passing on Monday of a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza has had no "immediate impact" on the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Hamas.

These talks, which are aimed at agreeing a temporary truce and the release of hostages still being held by Hamas, are currently taking place in Doha with the input of mediators from Qatar, Egypt and the US.

According to the Reuters news agency, sources briefed on the discussions said they were "moving ahead" and that while some of the Israeli delegation has left Doha, a smaller group of representatives remains.

Israel's Haaretz newspaper also cited an Israeli source as stating that "the deal has not collapsed".

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in a statement that the UN resolution had "damaged" the negotiations and encouraged Hamas to stick to its "delusional demands".

Hamas says a ceasefire should mean the end of the war and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, which Netanyahu rejects.

As we’ve been reporting, fighting is continuing in Gaza - despite the UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire being passed for the first time on Monday.

Ohad Tal is an Israeli MP from the far-right Religious Zionism party, which is part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.

Speaking to the BBC World Service’s Newsday programme earlier, he was asked why Israel is continuing its offensive in Gaza in the face of such a resolution.

“We have a right to defend ourselves – it’s as simple as that,” Tal replied.

He said the world must "make a choice" between supporting Israel or Hamas.

In northern Israel, a fire has broken out at a winery in the Avivim border community after projectiles were launched from Lebanon, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). There are no reports of casualties and firefighters are at the scene.

Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV station cited a statement from the Lebanese armed group as saying its fighters had hit two structures in Avivim "in support of our resilient Palestinian people in Gaza".

Separately, the IDF says several projectiles were launched towards one of its aerial control units at a military base in Meron. No injuries or damage to the unit's capabilities were reported.

Hezbollah said it had launched several missiles at the base, "achieving direct hits", according to Al-Manar.

The IDF says it struck the launch sites in Lebanon.

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported that Israeli shellfire and air strikes targeted the Fatnoun and Maroun al-Ras areas, which are just over the border from Avivim.