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For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children, Associated Press reported.

In the sprawling tent camp outside the southern city of Khan Younis, Mariam al-Najjar and her mother-in-law emptied four cans of peas and carrots into a pot and boiled it over a wood fire. They added a little bouillon and spices.

That, with a plate of rice, was the sole meal on Friday for the 11 members of their family, including six children.

Among Palestinians, “Fridays are sacred,” a day for large family meals of meat, stuffed vegetables or other rich traditional dishes, al-Najjar said, according to Associated Press.

“Now we eat peas and rice,” she said. “We never ate canned peas before the war. Only in this war that has destroyed our lives.”

The around 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza are now mainly living off canned vegetables, rice, pasta and lentils. Meat, milk, cheese and fruit have disappeared. Bread and eggs are scarce. The few vegetables or other items in the market have skyrocketed in price, unaffordable for most.

A clash broke out between police personnel and agitating teachers in New Baneshwor on Sunday.

The clash ensued after the protestors tried to enter the prohibited zone.

The Nepal Teachers’ Federation gave continuation to the protest after a meeting with the government on Saturday ended without making a concrete decision.

The teachers hurled stones at police while attempting to breach the prohibited area, prompting security personnel to respond with a water cannon.

Earlier on Saturday, the teachers had announced that they would breach the prohibited area on Sunday.

During the protest in Maitighar today, they chanted various slogans like the government address the demands of teachers and promulgate a progressive School Education Act among others.

The teachers have been staging protests in Kathmandu for the past 26 days.

Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza, killing at least 40 Palestinians on Saturday, as aid officials sound the alarm over “full-scale famine conditions” amid Israel’s blockade.

Hamas claims to have offered its "vision for reaching a comprehensive deal that achieves a ceasefire, prisoner exchange, and reconstruction" to mediators in Cairo, according to Al Jazeera.

US keeps up its offensive against Yemen’s Houthis, bombing several neighbourhoods in Sanaa and wounding at least eight people, according to media reports.

Israel's war on Gaza, which began 18 months ago, has killed at least 51,495 Palestinians and injured 117,524 others. The Gaza Government Media Office raised the death toll to nearly 61,700, stating thousands of individuals missing under the rubble are assumed dead, Al Jazeera reported.

At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.

A number of people were killed and multiple others were injured in Vancouver after a driver drove into a crowd at a Filipino street festival in the western Canadian city, police said on Saturday, Reuters reported.

The driver has been taken into custody, police said in a post on social media platform X.

The incident happened shortly after 8 p.m. (0300 GMT) near East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street, where the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party was taking place.

One witness told CTV News he saw a black vehicle driving erratically in the area of the festival just before the crowd was struck. The Vancouver Sun said thousands of people had been in the area, according to Reuters.

Vancouver’s Mayor Ken Sim said, “I am shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific incident at today’s Lapu Lapu Day event.”