Joland Nell

We heard more about that from our Middle East correspondent Joland Nell, but first she told Lucy Hockings about day two of the US vice president's visit. J.D. Vance came here amid lots of media speculation that this was really part of a US effort to try to stabilize the fragile ceasefire, particularly after those flare-ups that we saw on Sunday. He said that things were going positively better than he himself had anticipated, but we think that

In the meetings that he's had with both the Israeli prime minister and the Israeli president in the past few hours, there's been a lot going on behind the scenes where the US is really trying to press for some concessions by Israel as well in advancing President Trump's 20-point peace plan. When it comes to issues like the makeup of an international stabilization force, there's been a lot of discussion of that while J.D. Vance has been here. When it comes to issues related to the future governance of Gaza, how to disarm Hamas.

We see that Washington also has been urging some patience from Israel when it comes to this very sensitive issue about the return of the bodies of deceased hostages and the pace of Hamas returning those. Today we've seen quite heart-wrenching pictures from Derabala of some kind of burial taking place. Can you tell us what was happening there today?

As well as the bodies of hostages being returned by Hamas via the Red Cross to Israel, which we have focused on quite a lot in terms of the ceasefire deal, there have in return been bodies passed back of dead Palestinians by Israel to Gaza. In many cases, very few hostages.

Details are given about exactly who these bodies belong to, what may have happened to these individuals. More than 120 bodies have gone back so far and only a small number of them have actually been identified. There are pictures that are put up by the Hamas-run health ministry on a website for families to look at these.

You can see in many cases the bodies are decomposed. Some of them appear to be mutilated. There's lots of concern about what happened to some of these individuals while they were in Israeli custody. And because at the moment there is no ability to carry out real forensic testing or DNA tests.

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You talked about the ceasefire, because that is a moment that the World Health Organization and other organizations like yours have been waiting for, the opportunity to try and get aid in again. And it was supposed to scale up rapidly, but that doesn't seem to be happening yet. In terms of what you can get in, what is happening on the ground?

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