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The US embassy in Jerusalem has announced it will be reopening today.

The embassy said in a statement that Home Front Command has lifted all restrictions and the embassy will open as usual due to the ceasefire. 

The shelter in place orders for US government employees and their family members have also been lifted, the embassy said.

However, US government employees and their family members are restricted from travel outside the greater Tel Aviv area, Jerusalem, and Beer Sheba areas until further notice.

"Almost no aid is getting into Gaza", a spokeswoman for Oxfam has said.

Ghada Alhaddad, media and communications officer for the charity in Gaza, said even before the new military aid distribution scheme was put in place, Oxfam had warned that the mechanism was ineffective.

"Sine this scheme was put in place, we have seen dozens of Palestinian who have been starved by Israel since the beginning of the war," she told Wilfred Frost on Sky News Breakfast.

"We have warned that this mechanism doesn't adhere to humanitarian principles."

Alhaddad said Israel had sealed off the borders since March and only a "trickle of aid" was getting through. 

"We have seen almost no aid getting into Gaza," she added.

"It's no way enough to meet the needs of the people in the Gaza Strip. 

"Unfortunately I have seen people approaching us and asking for food. 

"I have seen people who are sick and experiencing acute malnutrition.

"This is because of the seals Israel has put on the Gaza Strip. It is also because of the ongoing bombardments that is happening all day and all night."

Alhaddad's comments follow reports from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry yesterday that Israeli troops started firing as thousands of Palestinians gathered at the Shakoush area in Rafah, several hundred yards from an aid distribution site.

At least 19 were killed and 50 others wounded, according to the ministry.

A classified briefing in the US on Iran and Israel has been postponed until Friday.

The meeting had been scheduled for yesterday but House Speaker Mike Johnson has now said officials will present the latest information later this week.

Johnson has not provided a reason for the postponement.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has proposed a meeting with Iran's foreign minister amid fears of the impact of US strikes on the country's nuclear sites.

Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a statement he had written to Abbas Araghchi and stressed the importance of working together and proposed meeting "soon".

He said IAEA inspectors have remained in Iran throughout the conflict and were "ready to start working as soon as possible", going back to the country's nuclear sites and verifying the inventories of nuclear material.

"As I have repeatedly stated � before and during the conflict � nuclear facilities should never be attacked due to the very real risk of a serious radiological accident," Grossi said.

"During these attacks, we have seen extensive damage at several nuclear sites in Iran, including its uranium conversion and enrichment facilities. 

"Our assessment is that there has been some localised radioactive as well as chemical release inside the affected facilities that contained nuclear material - mainly uranium enriched to varying degrees - but there has been no report of increased off-site radiation levels."

The statement comes after a Iranian lawmaker said Grossi should not be allowed to enter Iran. 

Alaeddin Boroujerdi, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy commission in Iran's parliament, said cooperation with the IAEA should be suspended, the Iranian Students' News Agency reported yesterday.

The same commission approved a day earlier the general outline of a bill meant to fully suspend Tehran's cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.

The Israeli military has said seven personnel, an officer and six soldiers, were killed in fighting in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday.

In a separate incident, a soldier was severely wounded also in southern Gaza, the military added today.

Israeli media reported the seven were in the city of Khan Younis when an explosive device planted on their vehicle detonated, setting it on fire.

Last month, the IDF ordered residents of Khan Younis to evacuate as it prepared to launch an "unprecedented attack".

People were ordered to move towards al-Mawasi in the west of the strip as the Israeli military launched a new Gaza offensive.

Iran has arrested 700 people accused of ties with Israel over the last 12 days, the Nour News agency reports.

The Iranian state-aligned media Fars News has referred to them as "Israeli mercenaries".

It also reported that 10,000 drones have been seized.

"Since the beginning of Israel's attack on Iran, the Zionist regime's spy network has been highly active in the country; Iranian intelligence and security forces managed to arrest more than 700 of them within 12 days," Fars News reported.

The claims have not been verified by Sky News.

Last night we brought you a report that US intelligence was now suggesting strikes on Iran didn't destroy nuclear sites.

We can bring you more on this today...

An early intelligence assessment indicated that the US military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of Tehran's nuclear programme and likely only set it back by months, CNN reported.

While over a dozen bombs were dropped on two of the nuclear facilities, the Fordow Fuel Enrichment plant and the Natanz Enrichment Complex, they did not fully eliminate the sites' centrifuges and highly enriched uranium, CNN said, citing people familiar with the early assessment.

It said the assessment was produced by the Defence Intelligence Agency - Pentagon's intelligence arm - and is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by the US Central Command after the U.S. strikes.

The report by the Defence Intelligence Agency estimated that the programme was delayed less than six months, the New York Times said in another report.

But Trump has rejected this...

In a post on Truth Social the US president said the sites were "completely destroyed".

This is what he had to say...

Iran has executed three men after they were convicted of collaborating with Israel.

The men were accused of working with the Mossad spy agency and smuggling equipment used in an assassination, the Mizan news agency reports.

Mizan did not give further details.

Iran has put to death many individuals convicted of having links with the Mossad and facilitating Israel's operations in the country.

It's just hit 5.30am and the skies over Israel and Iran have fallen quiet.

It's the second day of the ceasefire between Iran and Israel, which got off to a shaky start yesterday - angering Donald Trump.

He said both countries "don't know what the f*** they're doing", but was particularly upset with Israel's prime minister, who we understand turned planes around on Trump's orders.

The truce has appeared to hold since then, with noises from both sides insisting they will abide by the deal as long as the other does.

Meanwhile, Trump is in the Netherlands for a NATO summit, which will have conflicts in the Middle East high on the agenda.

By Mark Stone, US correspondent

Behind the chest-thumping from Donald Trump, and the bewilderment beyond at his statecraft-by-social-media, doubts have now reached fever pitch about the success of the American bombing of Iran's nuclear sites.

Leaks from the US Defence Department suggest the bunker busting bombs dropped on Iran's three nuclear enrichment sites might only have set the country's nuclear capabilities back by months.

"We were assuming that the damage was going to be much more significant than this assessment is finding," said one of three sources, speaking to NBC News.