A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the Associated Press's access to presidential events after the White House blocked the news agency in a dispute over the term "Gulf of America".

District Judge Trevor McFadden on Tuesday said the administration's restriction on AP journalists was "contrary to the First Amendment", which guarantees freedom of speech.

The dispute arose when the AP refused to adopt the administration's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" in its coverage, following an executive order by President Donald Trump.

The ban has meant that the AP has been unable to access press events at the White House as well as Air Force One.

Judge McFadden, who was appointed by Trump during his first term, also paused the ruling's implementation until Sunday to allow administration's lawyers time to appeal.

"The Court simply holds that under the First Amendment, if the Government opens its doors to some journalists — be it to the Oval Office, the East Room, or elsewhere — it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints," he wrote in his ruling. "The Constitution requires no less."

The AP had argued that the administration violated the news agency's constitutional right to free speech by restricting access due to disagreements over the its language.

In February, Judge McFadden had declined to immediately restore its access to presidential events.

After Tuesday's ruling, AP spokesperson Lauren Easton said the agency was "gratified by the court's decision".

"Today's ruling affirms the fundamental right of the press and public to speak freely without government retaliation. This is a freedom guaranteed for all Americans in the U.S. Constitution," she said in a statement.

The ruling was also welcomed by other organisations who had criticised the initial restrictions on the AP.

"This is a careful, well-reasoned opinion that properly describes the exclusion of the Associated Press from the press pool as retaliatory, viewpoint-based, and unconstitutional," said Jameel Jaffer, the executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

The AP sued three senior Trump administration officials — Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich — claiming the restrictions were unlawful and infringed on press freedom.

The Trump administration argued that the Associated Press was not entitled to "special access" to the president.

Soon after taking office in January, the Trump administration issued an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America", a move the White House said reflects the gulf's status as "an indelible part of America".

The AP said it would continue to use the term Gulf of Mexico, while acknowledging the Trump administration's efforts to rename it.

In response, the White House restricted the AP's access to events covered by the "pool" of journalists who report back to other media outlets.

Iran is ready to engage with the US at talks on Saturday over its nuclear programme "with a view to seal a deal", its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said.

But US President Donald Trump must first agree there can be no "military option", Araghchi said, and added that Iran would "never accept coercion".

He also insisted the negotiations in Oman would be indirect, contradicting Trump's surprise announcement on Monday that they would be "direct talks".

Trump, who pulled the US out a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers during his first term, warned that Iran would be in "great danger" if talks were not successful.

The US and Iran have no diplomatic ties, so last month Trump sent a letter to Iran's supreme leader via the United Arab Emirates. It said he wanted a deal to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and to avert possible military strikes by the US and Israel.

Trump disclosed the upcoming talks during a visit to the White House on Monday by the Israeli Prime Minister. Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that both leaders had agreed "Iran will not have nuclear weapons" and added "the military option" would happen if talks dragged on.

Iran insists its nuclear activities are entirely peaceful and it will never seek to develop or acquire nuclear weapons.

However, Iran has increasingly breached restrictions imposed by the existing nuclear deal, in retaliation for crippling US sanctions reinstated seven years ago, and has stockpiled enough highly-enriched uranium to make several bombs.

The US president told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that this weekend's meeting in Oman would be "very big".

"I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious," Trump said.

But he also warned that it would "be a very bad day for Iran" if the talks were not successful.

In an opinion piece published by the Washington Post on Tuesday, Iran's foreign minister declared that it was "ready to engage in earnest and with a view to seal a deal".

"We will meet in Oman on Saturday for indirect negotiations. It is as much an opportunity as it is a test," Araghchi said.

Iran harboured "serious doubts" about the sincerity of the US government's intentions, he noted, citing the "maximum pressure" campaign of sanctions that Trump restored soon after starting his second term.

"To move forward today, we first need to agree that there can be no 'military option', let alone a 'military solution'," he said.

"The proud Iranian nation, whose strength my government relies on for real deterrence, will never accept coercion and imposition."

Araghchi insisted there was no evidence that Iran had violated its commitment not to seek nuclear weapons, but also acknowledged that "there may exist possible concerns about our nuclear programme".

"We are willing to clarify our peaceful intent and take the necessary measures to allay any possible concern. For its part, the United States can show that it is serious about diplomacy by showing that it will stick to any deal it makes. If we are shown respect, we will reciprocate it."

"The ball is now in America's court," he added.

Iran's hard-line Tasnim news agency said Araghchi would head the country's delegation at the Oman talks, underlining their importance.

The BBC's US partner CBS News meanwhile confirmed that Trump's Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff would lead the US side, and said America is continuing to push for them to be direct talks.

During the first set of meetings, the US was expected to call on Iran to fully dismantle its nuclear programme and, depending on how negotiations went, technical experts were then expected to follow up in additional talks, it said.

US officials have so far revealed few details about Trump's demands.

However, after Witkoff said in a recent interview that Trump was proposing a "verification programme" to show Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz clarified the goal was "full dismantlement".

Israel's prime minister echoed Waltz's stance in a video on Tuesday, saying he wanted a "Libyan-style" agreement - a reference to the North African country's decision to dismantle its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programmes in 2003.

"They go in, blow up the installations, dismantle all of the equipment, under American supervision and carried out by America," Netanyahu explained.

He then said: "The second possibility, that will not be, is that they drag out the talks and then there is the military option."

Israel, which is assumed to have its own nuclear weapons but maintains an official policy of deliberate ambiguity, views a nuclear Iran as an existential threat.

Tel Aviv said last year it had hit an Iranian nuclear site in retaliation for an missile attack.

A senior official at Iran's foreign ministry told the BBC that it would never agree to dismantle its nuclear programme, and added the "Libya model" would never be part of any negotiations.

The 2015 deal that Iran reached with then-US President Barack Obama's administration, as well as the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany, saw it limit its nuclear activities and allow inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in return for sanctions relief.

However, in 2018, Trump unilaterally abandoned the agreement, which he said did too little to stop Iran's potential pathway to a bomb.

Iran then increasingly breached the agreement's restrictions. The IAEA warned in February that Iran had stockpiled almost 275kg (606lb) of uranium enriched to 60% purity, which is near weapons grade. That would theoretically be enough, if enriched to 90%, for six nuclear bombs.

At least 15 people have died after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic.

Many more are injured and rescue workers are still attempting to free people from the rubble.

It is not yet clear what caused the incident, which happened in the early hours of Tuesday during a concert by the popular merengue singer Rubby Pérez at the Jet Set discotheque in the capital, Santo Domingo.

The president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, has expressed his condolences to the families affected.

The director of the Emergency Operations Centre (COE), Juan Manuel Méndez, said rescue workers were still looking for people under the debris.

He added that ambulances had made more than 100 trips to the area's hospitals, at times carrying more than one patient. Officials are still trying to determine the total number of those injured.

The preliminary total of those killed is 15.

Mr Méndez said he was hopeful that many of those buried under the collapsed roof were still alive.

Jet Set is a popular nightclub in the capital which regularly hosts dance music concerts on Monday evenings.

Video footage apparently taken inside the club shows people sitting at tables in front of the stage and some dancing to the music in the back while Rubby Pérez sings.

In a separate mobile phone recording shared on social media, a man standing next to the stage can be heard saying "something fell from the ceiling", while his finger can be seen pointing towards the roof.

In the footage, singer Rubby Pérez, also seems to be looking towards the area pointed out by the man.

Less than 30 seconds later, a noise can be heard and the recording goes black while a woman is heard shouting "Dad, what's happened to you?".

One of Rubby Pérez's band members told local media that the club had been full when the collapse happened "at around 1am".

"I thought it was an earthquake," the musician said.

Astro Bot has been named best game at this year's Bafta Games Awards.

The 3D platformer, starring the PlayStation mascot character, won five awards in total at the prestigious ceremony in London.

Its director Nicolas Doucet dedicated the biggest prize of the night to developers who had "inspired others to join the industry".

"They give us the energy, the passion and the will to become magicians," said the head of Sony-owned studio Team Asobi.

It was a strong night overall for Sony as its other big 2024 hit, Helldivers 2, picked up two awards for best multiplayer and music.

The squad-based shooter was a surprise hit when it was released, and its makers had to race to boost server capacity to meet early demand.

Accepting the multiplayer award, Johan Pilestedt, chief creative officer at developer Arrowhead, said players had reached out to him to say Helldivers 2 had reconnected them with gamer friends from 10 to 15 years ago.

"That's such an honour," he told the crowd at Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank.

Thank Goodness You're Here! - a comedy cartoon game made by two friends from Yorkshire - won the award for best British game.

It is set in the fictional northern town of Barnsworth, heavily inspired by developers Will Todd and James Carbutt's home town of Barnsley in South Yorkshire.

The quirky title features voice performances from the pair, as well as actor Matt Berry.

Accepting the prize, the two friends said: "We hope this inspires you to tell your own story in your own voice without compromise."

The Bafta Games Awards, which launched 21 years ago, have earned a reputation as causing major upsets.

In 2023, Vampire Survivors, a game made by a tiny British team, beat Sony's big-budget blockbuster God of War: Ragnarok to bag the best game prize.

Many had tipped Balatro - the poker-inspired card game made by an anonymous, lone developer known as LocalThunk - to pip Astro Bot to the award this year.

But it was Astro Bot's night, with the game winning best animation, audio achievement, family game and game design - as well as best game.

Balatro did, however, win best debut.

Actor Ben Starr, accepting the award on the developer's behalf, approached the stage in make-up and a jester's hat - an outfit inspired by the game's character Jimbo.

In the speech, he joked that developer LocalThunk was "really rich now" and urged the audience to "play more independent games... they are the lifeblood of this industry".

Legendary composer Yoko Shimomura accepted the Bafta fellowship in recognition of her contribution to gaming.

Perhaps best known for her work on the Kingdom Hearts series, from Japanese publisher Square Enix, she recalled how she had "felt like giving up" on her work many times.

"The fact I am standing here at all is no thanks to my own efforts, but to the people who have supported me," she said in her acceptance speech.

"I feel if the music I have made has resonated with one person and touched their hearts in one way, it was worth it."

Meanwhile, Still Wakes the Deep - a horror game set on a Scottish oil rig in the 1970s - swept the lead and supporting performance categories, and was also named best new intellectual property.

Actor Abubakar Salim, known for performances in Assassin's Creed and HBO's House of the Dragon, gave an emotional speech as he collected the games beyond entertainment award.

A keen gamer, he set up his own development company and its debut release, Tales of Kenzera: Zau, was inspired by the grief he felt at the loss of his father.

Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, which went into the ceremony with 11 nominations, went home with just one award: technical achievement.

Bafta Games Awards 2025 - the winners in full:

Animation: Astro Bot

Artistic achievement: Neva

Audio achievement: Astro Bot

Bafta fellowship: Yoko Shimomura (composer)

Best game: Astro Bot

British Game: Thank Goodness You're Here!

Debut game: Balatro

Evolving game: Vampire Survivors

Family game: Astro Bot

Game beyond entertainment: Tales of Kenzera: ZAU

Game design: Astro Bot

Multiplayer: Helldivers 2

Music: Helldivers 2

Narrative: Metaphor: ReFantazio

New intellectual property: Still Wakes the Deep

Leading performance: Alec Newman as Caz in Still Wakes the Deep

Best supporting actor: Karen Dunbar as Finlay in Still Wakes the Deep

Technical achievement: Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

Whether it's pensions, mortgages, investments or the cost of everyday items, many of you have been getting in touch with Your Voice, Your BBC News to ask how the global tariffs and recent stock market turmoil may impact your personal finances.

The BBC's Cost of Living Correspondent, Colletta Smith, has been answering your questions.

'If I have a private pension, am I going to lose money?'

If you're far away from retirement age, then sit tight because pensions are a long-term investment. As we have seen, a lot can change in a very short space of time so don't panic.

If you're getting close to retiring, your pension pot is likely to be moved to less risky investments, such as government bonds. When stock markets fall, these bonds tend to do better than traditional investments.

Pensioners with a fixed annuity should not be affected.

But if you're currently living off a pension that has been invested, that could mean you get less than you expected because of this stock market fall.

It's important to make a plan about how you will make up any shortfall.

'I've lost £1,500 in three days. When will things stabilise?'

Brian Waldie, 64, has been investing into a Child Trust Fund for his youngest daughter since 2007.

In the last three days, he has seen £1,500 lost from the account.

"We were trying to make our daughter's life simple but this is money I can't afford to lose," he told Your Voice, Your BBC News.

If you invest directly, through a Stocks and Shares ISA or Child Trust Fund, then you will have seen some big changes over the last couple of days.

Providers should always tell you that investments can go down as well as up.

If you want more certainty, it may be worth facing up to reality and making a new financial plan.

'If we put a 10% tariff on all goods coming into our country, will it stop other countries from dumping cheap goods on us?'

The government has said it won't rush into making any decisions about introducing tariffs on goods coming into the UK.

Right now, items coming from the USA may well end up costing more, but it's also possible that products from countries that have been hit with tariffs to import into the US may just decide that it is cheaper to send their products here instead.

With cheaper foreign imports coming from countries like China, Japan and South Korea, it may push the prices down of some products here in the high street as firms compete with each other to attract customers with lower prices than rivals.

'How can a stock market crash lead to lower mortgages?'

Lots of people have been asking about how the uncertainty could affect mortgages. Chris in Sussex got in touch to find out whether it could lead to a drop in interest rates.

The Bank of England is worried that businesses and consumers are getting nervous so they want to encourage people to spend and borrow more.

We had been expecting two interest rate cuts this year and it's now predicted there will be an additional third cut.

Lenders are already pricing that into their equations and we're seeing mortgage rates fall as a result.

Iran is ready to engage with the US at talks on Saturday over its nuclear programme "with a view to seal a deal", its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said.

But US President Donald Trump must first agree there can be no "military option", Araghchi said, and added that Iran would "never accept coercion".

He also insisted the negotiations in Oman would be indirect, contradicting Trump's surprise announcement on Monday that they would be "direct talks".

Trump, who pulled the US out a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers during his first term, warned that Iran would be in "great danger" if talks were not successful.

The US and Iran have no diplomatic ties, so last month Trump sent a letter to Iran's supreme leader via the United Arab Emirates. It said he wanted a deal to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and to avert possible military strikes by the US and Israel.

Trump disclosed the upcoming talks during a visit to the White House on Monday by the Israeli Prime Minister. Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that both leaders had agreed "Iran will not have nuclear weapons" and added "the military option" would happen if talks dragged on.

Iran insists its nuclear activities are entirely peaceful and it will never seek to develop or acquire nuclear weapons.

However, Iran has increasingly breached restrictions imposed by the existing nuclear deal, in retaliation for crippling US sanctions reinstated seven years ago, and has stockpiled enough highly-enriched uranium to make several bombs.

The US president told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that this weekend's meeting in Oman would be "very big".

"I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious," Trump said.

But he also warned that it would "be a very bad day for Iran" if the talks were not successful.

In an opinion piece published by the Washington Post on Tuesday, Iran's foreign minister declared that it was "ready to engage in earnest and with a view to seal a deal".

"We will meet in Oman on Saturday for indirect negotiations. It is as much an opportunity as it is a test," Araghchi said.

Iran harboured "serious doubts" about the sincerity of the US government's intentions, he noted, citing the "maximum pressure" campaign of sanctions that Trump restored soon after starting his second term.

"To move forward today, we first need to agree that there can be no 'military option', let alone a 'military solution'," he said.

"The proud Iranian nation, whose strength my government relies on for real deterrence, will never accept coercion and imposition."

Araghchi insisted there was no evidence that Iran had violated its commitment not to seek nuclear weapons, but also acknowledged that "there may exist possible concerns about our nuclear programme".

"We are willing to clarify our peaceful intent and take the necessary measures to allay any possible concern. For its part, the United States can show that it is serious about diplomacy by showing that it will stick to any deal it makes. If we are shown respect, we will reciprocate it."

"The ball is now in America's court," he added.

Iran's hard-line Tasnim news agency said Araghchi would head the country's delegation at the Oman talks, underlining their importance.

The BBC's US partner CBS News meanwhile confirmed that Trump's Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff would lead the US side, and said America is continuing to push for them to be direct talks.

During the first set of meetings, the US was expected to call on Iran to fully dismantle its nuclear programme and, depending on how negotiations went, technical experts were then expected to follow up in additional talks, it said.

US officials have so far revealed few details about Trump's demands.

However, after Witkoff said in a recent interview that Trump was proposing a "verification programme" to show Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz clarified the goal was "full dismantlement".

Israel's prime minister echoed Waltz's stance in a video on Tuesday, saying he wanted a "Libyan-style" agreement - a reference to the North African country's decision to dismantle its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programmes in 2003.

"They go in, blow up the installations, dismantle all of the equipment, under American supervision and carried out by America," Netanyahu explained.

He then said: "The second possibility, that will not be, is that they drag out the talks and then there is the military option."

Israel, which is assumed to have its own nuclear weapons but maintains an official policy of deliberate ambiguity, views a nuclear Iran as an existential threat.

Tel Aviv said last year it had hit an Iranian nuclear site in retaliation for an missile attack.

A senior official at Iran's foreign ministry told the BBC that it would never agree to dismantle its nuclear programme, and added the "Libya model" would never be part of any negotiations.

The 2015 deal that Iran reached with then-US President Barack Obama's administration, as well as the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany, saw it limit its nuclear activities and allow inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in return for sanctions relief.

However, in 2018, Trump unilaterally abandoned the agreement, which he said did too little to stop Iran's potential pathway to a bomb.

Iran then increasingly breached the agreement's restrictions. The IAEA warned in February that Iran had stockpiled almost 275kg (606lb) of uranium enriched to 60% purity, which is near weapons grade. That would theoretically be enough, if enriched to 90%, for six nuclear bombs.

The government is considering nationalising British Steel as fears grow among ministers that the company's blast furnaces in Scunthorpe could run out of raw materials within days.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has sought to reassure workers at the Lincolnshire plant that the government would consider nationalisation if necessary.

Reeves spoke to trade unions over the weekend to explain the government's outlook on the steelworks' future. It is understood she told them she was acutely aware of the steel industry's strategic importance to the UK.

US President Donald Trump has levied a 25% tariff on American imports of steel.

British Steel has said its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe are "no longer financially sustainable" and there are fears that without government support 2,700 jobs could be lost.

The firm has been owned by the Chinese company Jingye since 2020.

Jingye says it has invested more than £1.2bn into British Steel to maintain operations and claims it suffered financial losses of around £700,000 a day.

Taking questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee on Tuesday, the prime minister reiterated "all options remain on the table" when it comes to potential government support.

"I'm absolutely committed to steel production in this country," he said.

He declined to provide further details, but added: "I can reassure the committee that we're doing everything we can to ensure there is a bright future for Scunthorpe."

The government has offered £500m of support to partly fund a switch from blast furnaces to what are known as electric arc furnaces.

But that has been rejected by the company.

Senior figures in Whitehall are concerned negotiations are reaching a crunch point this week, as the prospect of a lack of raw materials for the blast furnaces in the coming days - leading them to be turned off – would make the site's existing vulnerability even more perilous.

The political backdrop to the arguments about the plant's future is the race to be Lincolnshire's first directly elected mayor. The election is on 1 May.

The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and his deputy Richard Tice – himself a Lincolnshire MP - visited the works on Tuesday, with Mr Farage claiming there were "3 days to save British Steel" and the way to do that was to take it "into public ownership."

The Conservative MP for nearby Brigg and Immingham, Martin Vickers, told the Commons on Monday: "It is very obvious that Jingye has cancelled the raw material orders that are essential to keep the furnaces going; those orders were due in mid-May.

"When I was at the steelworks on Friday, I was told that unless another order for iron ore pellets could be placed this week, it would be too late."

Vickers added that "nationalisation on a temporary basis" would "provide an opportunity to rebuild the industry, hopefully secure new private sector involvement and convince the customers—most notably Network Rail, which gets 95% of its rail track from the Scunthorpe works—that supply will continue."

The Conservative frontbench has not committed the party to backing nationalisation.

The party leader, Kemi Badenoch, said "nationalisation has got to be a last resort," adding "we need steel production in this country, it is important for national resilience."

In a written statement published on Tuesday, the Business Minister Sarah Jones said: "Our priority is respecting workers, safeguarding jobs, and retaining steelmaking.

"We have been clear that the best way forward is for British Steel to continue as a commercially-run business with private investment and government acting in support.

"We call upon British Steel to accept our generous offer of financial support, and the associated conditions.

"However, no options are off the table. The government remains resolute in our desire to secure a long-term future for the Scunthorpe steelworks, retaining steel production and putting an end to the years of uncertainty."

The Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and an independent candidate are also contesting the Lincolnshire mayoral race.

You can see a full list of candidates here.

At least 15 people have died after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic.

Many more are injured and rescue workers are still attempting to free people from the rubble.

It is not yet clear what caused the incident, which happened in the early hours of Tuesday during a concert by the popular merengue singer Rubby Pérez at the Jet Set discotheque in the capital, Santo Domingo.

The president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, has expressed his condolences to the families affected.

The director of the Emergency Operations Centre (COE), Juan Manuel Méndez, said rescue workers were still looking for people under the debris.

He added that ambulances had made more than 100 trips to the area's hospitals, at times carrying more than one patient. Officials are still trying to determine the total number of those injured.

The preliminary total of those killed is 15.

Mr Méndez said he was hopeful that many of those buried under the collapsed roof were still alive.

Jet Set is a popular nightclub in the capital which regularly hosts dance music concerts on Monday evenings.

Video footage apparently taken inside the club shows people sitting at tables in front of the stage and some dancing to the music in the back while Rubby Pérez sings.

In a separate mobile phone recording shared on social media, a man standing next to the stage can be heard saying "something fell from the ceiling", while his finger can be seen pointing towards the roof.

In the footage, singer Rubby Pérez, also seems to be looking towards the area pointed out by the man.

Less than 30 seconds later, a noise can be heard and the recording goes black while a woman is heard shouting "Dad, what's happened to you?".

One of Rubby Pérez's band members told local media that the club had been full when the collapse happened "at around 1am".

"I thought it was an earthquake," the musician said.

The heads of six UN agencies have appealed to world leaders to act urgently to make sure food and supplies get to Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel has stopped letting in deliveries for more than a month.

A joint statement said Palestinians were "trapped, bombed and starved again" with supplies "piling up" at crossing points.

Israel has blocked the entry of supplies, including humanitarian aid, since 2 March, after the first stage of a ceasefire expired, demanding Hamas agree to extend that part of the truce. Hamas has refused, accusing Israel of reneging on its commitments.

Israel has said there is enough food in Gaza "for a long period of time", but the agencies said this was not the case.

"The latest ceasefire allowed us to achieve in 60 days what bombs, obstruction and lootings prevented us from doing in 470 days of war: life-saving supplies reaching nearly every part of Gaza," the statement said.

"While this offered a short respite, assertions that there is now enough food to feed all Palestinians in Gaza are far from the reality on the ground, and commodities are running extremely low."

The statement was signed by the heads of the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); the UN's children's agency (Unicef); the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS); the World Food Programme (WFP); and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Because of the blockade, all UN-supported bakeries have closed, markets are empty of most fresh vegetables and hospitals are rationing painkillers and antibiotics.

The statement says that Gaza's "partially functional health system is overwhelmed [and]... Essential medical and trauma supplies are rapidly running out."

"With the tightened Israeli blockade on Gaza now in its second month, we appeal to world leaders to act – firmly, urgently and decisively – to ensure the basic principles of international humanitarian law are upheld.

"Protect civilians. Facilitate aid. Release hostages. Renew a ceasefire."

The two-month pause in fighting saw a surge in humanitarian aid let into Gaza, as well as the release by Hamas of 33 hostages - eight of them dead - in exchange for about 1,900 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

Israel renewed its aerial bombardment and ground offensive in Gaza on 18 March.

The war was triggered by Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others taken back to Gaza as hostages.

More than 50,810 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive since then, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.