内容摘要：Israel says the blockade was intended to put pressure on Hamas to release the hostages still held in Gaza. Israel has also accused Hamas of stealing supplies, which the group has denied.

Israel says the blockade was intended to put pressure on Hamas to release the hostages still held in Gaza. Israel has also accused Hamas of stealing supplies, which the group has denied.

A representative of one of the aid agencies operating in Gaza told me the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation scheme was "totally premature," adding that Israel had never provided evidence to back up its assertion that Hamas was responsible for the widespread diversion of aid.One western diplomat, quoted in Israel's liberal Haaretz newspaper, described the new model as a "crazy plan and absolute madness".

During a passionate debate in the House of Commons, Lammy clashed with his Conservative opposite number, Dame Priti Patel, who suggested Hamas was benefitting from international criticism of Israel.Lammy accused her of refusing to confront the reality of what was happening in Gaza.Other MPs said Britain wasn't going far enough, with several suggesting, once again, that the time has come for Britain to recognise a Palestinian state.

The government's view is that taking such a significant step for purely symbolic reasons wouldn't actually change anything.But with France possibly poised to recognise Palestine at a conference it's co-hosting with Saudi Arabia next month, some are hoping Britain follows suit.

Even if it doesn't, it's clear that Israel's supporters are increasingly exasperated, and fearful that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest military operation, dubbed "Gideon's Chariots" is poised to heap misery on Gaza just as the area's two million civilians face the very real prospect of starvation.

Even US President Donald Trump has expressed impatience, warning that "a lot of people are starving" as he concluded his regional tour last week.Cats spent significantly more time sniffing the odours of unknown people compared to those of their owner or the empty tube, suggesting they can discriminate between the smells of familiar and unfamiliar people, the researchers said.

The idea of sniffing an unknown stimulus for longer has been shown before in cats - weaned kittens sniff unknown female cats for longer compared to their mothers.However, the researchers cautioned that it cannot be concluded the cats can identify specific people such as their owner.

"The odour stimuli used in this study were only those of known and unknown persons," said one of the study's authors, Hidehiko Uchiyama."Behavioural experiments in which cats are presented with multiple known-person odour stimuli would be needed, and we would need to find specific behavioural patterns in cats that appear only in response to the owner's odour."