The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency called on Tuesday for a temporary truce to allow people to leave areas of northern Gaza as health officials said they were running out of supplies to treat patients hurt in a three-week-old Israeli offensive.

Israeli soldiers sit in a military vehicle near trucks carrying humanitarian aid that wait before making their way to the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, at Erez Crossing in southern Israel,

Israeli forces are besieging hospitals and shelters, medics say. The Israeli military says Hamas has regrouped in the area.

Ukraine's population has declined by 10 million, or around a quarter, since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion as a result of refugees leaving, collapsing fertility and war deaths, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Ukraine’s population has fallen by more than 10 million since Russia’s 2022 invasion, the United Nations said on Tuesday. With a birth rate of around one child per woman, Ukraine has “one of the lowest in the world,