Another breakdown of negotiations shows neither side is ready for the 21-month war to end. A deadly hunger crisis is taking hold.

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Israel announced Sunday it was pausing fighting in some areas of the Gaza strip to facilitate aid delivery after international outrage swelled in recent days.

More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday. Israeli strikes overnight killed more than two dozen people, mostly women and children,

Britain said on Tuesday it would recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel takes steps to relieve suffering in Gaza, where starvation is spreading, and reaches a ceasefire in the nearly two-year war with Hamas.

The Palestinian death toll in Gaza passed 60,000 on Tuesday. The world’s leading authority on food crises said the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in the territory of over 2 million people as starvation deaths rise.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government would act unless there was a truce, citing the “intolerable” humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced Tuesday that the U.K. will recognise Palestine as a state in the United Nations meeting in September, unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza and a path toward a permanent,