Doug Claringbold, managing director for First Bus in the West, said: "We're now a year away from nearly half our fleet being electric and nearly all our depots being electrified – that's a phenomenal achievement."
The UN says 40,000 residents of Palestinian refugee camps in the areas have been forcibly displaced after being ordered to leave by Israeli authorities and told that they would not be allowed to return for a year.In February, the Israeli military announced it had killed 60 fighters in its operations and arrested 280 others. The UN said last week that 124 people have been killed by Israeli forces across the West Bank since the start of the year
Hundreds of Palestinians and dozens of Israelis have been killed in a surge in violence in the West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza, which was triggered by Hamas's deadly attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.Israel has built about 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war.The vast majority of the international community considers the settlements illegal under international law - a position supported by an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last year - although Israel disputes this.
Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, known as "Pepe", has died at the age of 89.The ex-guerrilla who governed Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 was known as the world's "poorest president" because of his modest lifestyle.
Current President Yamandú Orsi announced his predecessor's death on X, writing: "Thank you for everything you gave us and for your deep love for your people."
The politician's cause of death is not known but he had been suffering from oesophageal cancer.Dujarric said the aid operation was made "complex" as Israel required the UN to "offload supplies on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, and reload them separately once they secure our teams' access from inside the Gaza Strip".
He added the arrival of the supplies was a positive development but described it as "a drop in the ocean of what's needed".UN bodies estimate 600 trucks a day are required to begin tackling Gaza's chronic humanitarian crisis.
Earlier, the UN's humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher told the BBC thousands of babies could die in Gaza if Israel does not immediately let aid in.Speaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Fletcher said: "There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them."