Israel's 11-week blockade of humanitarian aid entering Gaza has ended.

This morning, the UN hoped 100 aid trucks would travel into the Gaza Strip.

By this afternoon, they said that no aid had been distributed in Gaza as supplies hadn't arrived at the organisation's "warehouses and delivery points".

BBC's Rushdi Abualouf says trucks had been parked and waiting at the border crossing for nearly eight hours, having not been allowed to enter the designated area where Israeli trucks usually unload their cargo.

In response, Israel says 93 aid trucks had been transferred to the Gaza Strip today.

UN humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, told the BBC earlier that 14,000 babies would die in Gaza in the next 48 hours if aid supplies don't reach them.

Throughout the day, BBC's Alice Cuddy has been speaking to mothers of malnourished children, ambulance drivers and the family of a deceased hostage about the situation in Gaza.

The UK's Foreign Secretary David Lammy said "we are entering a dark new phase of this conflict" as he announced the UK was suspending trade negotiation with Israel.

Hours later, the European Union's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, ordered a review a free trade deal between the EU and Israel.

We're ending our live coverage for the day but you can keep up to date with our news story, a closer look at the UK's actions and analysis from BBC's Jeremy Bowen.

Alice Cuddy
Reporting from Jerusalem

Yesterday, we reported that a severely malnourished baby, Siwar Ashour, was being discharged from Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza.

We’ve been catching up again with her mother today, who says that five-month-old Siwar cannot absorb regular formula milk and doctors told her supplies for the formula she needs were scarce.

Najwa tells us that the “new milk formula appears to be working”.

“I don’t have scales to weigh her but she feels a bit heavier,” she says.

She adds that she is concerned about her malnourished baby living between a tent and a partially destroyed room, and fears for the future if more aid does not arrive.

“I’m worried that when I run out of this new milk, she’ll lose weight again,” she says.

You can look back at my colleague Fergal Keane's reporting on malnourished children in Gaza here.

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Tom Bateman
US State Department correspondent

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We’ve had a confirmation from Trump’s top diplomat that the istration had been pressuring Israel over recent days to lift its aid blockade on Gaza.

It came here at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio answered questions from senators for the first time since becoming Secretary of State.

Of the “trickle” - as one senator put it - of food now allowed into Gaza, Rubio said: “I don’t think you would have seen the events of the last couple of days without our engagement,” adding that he understood the view that the amount was “insufficient”.

It follows a changing tone in recent weeks from the istration, moving from previously answering questions about the humanitarian crisis by focusing blame solely on Hamas, to starting to apply some pressure to its Israeli ally.

Rubio also confirmed that the istration has been speaking to unnamed countries about what he called “voluntary” relocation of Palestinians from Gaza (without detailing any numbers).

That was in light of an NBC report at the weekend that the Trump istration was working on a plan to “move” 1 million Palestinians to Libya.

It follows Trump’s plans, conve yed over several weeks in February, to expel Palestinians from Gaza and annex the territory to the US, a move which would violate the Fourth Geneva Convention but which the istration claimed was a humanitarian gesture.

Pressed about the latest reports, Rubio said he was not aware of Libya being involved - the White House had earlier described the story an untrue but didn’t give further details.

But the ideas - alongside Trump’s own proposals - will again be seized on by Israel’s ultra nationalist and settler far right, who interpret such signals by the US as a green light for their desire to expel Palestinians - whose dispossession has been a key driver of the century old conflict.

Israel's special envoy for trade, Hassan-Nahoum, tells BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK has "double standards" when it condemns Israel.

"Britain sells arms, in fact £17bn worth of arms to countries that are considered human rights abs," she says.

The show's host Evan Davis asks whether countries that have long been allies of Israel aren't entitled to criticise them for their bombings and blockades in Gaza.

She says it would be more legitimate if the UK condemned Hamas and that aid organisations work with Hamas - Davis pushes back on both claims.

Hassan-Nahoum challenges Davis, saying that "Hamas creates an artificial lack of aid". "So what is Israel supposed to do">The European Union's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has ordered a review of the EU-Israel association agreement, a free trade deal between the two regions.

The decision follows Israel's 11-week blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza.

"In the meantime, it is up to Israel to unblock humanitarian aid," she says in a press conference following the Foreign Affairs Council.

"Saving lives must be our top priority."

A discussion into the review was proposed earlier by the Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp.

As a reminder, the UK suspended its free trade negotiations with Israel earlier today, we have more on that in our earlier post.

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No humanitarian aid has been distributed yet in the Gaza Strip today, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric says.

This is despite supplies arriving at the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, a solely commercial goods junction with Israel in southern Gaza.

"Today, one of our teams waited several hours for the Israeli green light to access the Kerem Shalom area and collect the nutrition supplies. Unfortunately, they were not able to to bring those supplies into our warehouse," Dujarric says during a UN daily briefing.

He adds that "more supplies have come into the Gaza Strip" but says UN teams on the ground have "not been able to secure the arrival of those supplies into our warehouses and delivery points".

As a reminder, the UN said earlier that Israel had given permission for around 100 aid lorries to enter Gaza after 11 weeks of blocking all aid.

Let's return to some news we heard this morning, when the UN's humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher spoke to BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

During the interview, Fletcher said 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in the next 48 hours if more aid doesn't reach them. Pressed on that figure by the BBC's Anna Foster, Fletcher said it was "utterly chilling".

We've since asked the UN for details on that 14,000 number - to which Jens Laerke, their human rights commission spokesman, provided the following statement:

"We are pointing to the imperative of getting supplies in to save an estimated 14,000 babies suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Gaza, as the IPC partnership [Integrated Food Security Phase Classification] has warned about.

"We need to get the supplies in as soon as possible, ideally within the next 48 hours."

In some analysis released earlier this month, external, the IPC estimated that nearly 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to be "acutely malnourished" over the next 11 months - of which "14,100 cases are expected to be severe".

Alice Cuddy
Reporting from Jerusalem

In al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, 60-year-old grandmother Wafa Qablan says "we last ate a meal the day before yesterday. Yesterday, we didn’t eat anything."

Wafa says of her family went to a food distribution point this morning, but returned empty-handed.

“Us adults can handle it but what about the children?” she says, adding that her grandchildren needed to take “several rests” when walking anywhere because of their hunger.

She says they are struggling to feed her four-month-old grandson because there is no water to make his milk formula.

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We're heading back to the US now, where Secretary of State Marco Rubio is responding to questions about Gaza at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

When asked about plans to deport Palestinians in Gaza, Rubio says the US has asked some other countries in the region if they'd be open to accepting people voluntarily. He rejects the term deportation, and says "you don’t want people trapped there".

"They may want to come back, they may want to live there in the future, but right now they can't. But if there are some nations willing to accept them in the interim period, yes we’ve asked countries preliminarily whether they’d be open to accepting people," he says.

Rubio also says Trump's istration is "happy to see they have allowed aid to begin to flow and we hope that will continue". This comes after the UN said Israel gave permission for around 100 aid lorries to enter Gaza today after 11 weeks of blocking all aid.

He adds that Israel remains a "strong ally of the US", saying: "We're ive and we understand why, for their security, Hamas cannot exist."

As a reminder, Rubio was earlier disrupted by protesters against the Gaza war.