内容摘要：Virgil van Dijk might have played the most minutes (at the time of writing) in Liverpool's title campaign but his fellow Dutchman, another ever present, has excelled. He has become such a key player under Arne Slot as a midfield lynchpin and has been a model of high consistency.

Virgil van Dijk might have played the most minutes (at the time of writing) in Liverpool's title campaign but his fellow Dutchman, another ever present, has excelled. He has become such a key player under Arne Slot as a midfield lynchpin and has been a model of high consistency.

Half a million people face starvation in the coming months, an assessment by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has said.A UN World Food Programme (WFP) official said the UN and its partners had over 140,000 tonnes of food - about 6,000 lorry loads and enough to feed the entire population for two months - in position at aid corridors and ready to be brought into Gaza at scale.

Israel stopped all deliveries of aid and commercial supplies to Gaza on 2 March and resumed its military offensive two weeks later, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas.It said the steps were meant to put pressure on the armed group to release the 58 hostages still held in Gaza, up to 23 of whom are believed to be alive.Israel has insisted that there has been no shortage of aid and has accused Hamas of stealing supplies to give to its fighters or sell to raise money - an allegation the group denied. The UN also denied that aid had been diverted.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated the claim on Thursday, saying in a statement: "I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer: When mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you're on the wrong side of justice."Netanyahu said the leaders of France, Canada and the UK had "bought into Hamas's propaganda that says Israel is starving Palestinian children".

He reiterated that Israel and the US would set up their own aid delivery to be done through American companies in Gaza, bypassing the UN and other aid suppliers.

Netanyahu had previously said he was allowing in a limited amount of food so that the Israeli military could continue its newly expanded ground offensive and take full control of the Palestinian territory.It follows last week's controversy when he shared a social media post about Zionism that included an illustration of a rat, historically used as an antisemitic insult.

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But the ensuing headlines will not be the ones Lineker will have wanted or anticipated for his final weeks at the BBC - he'd worked hard for years to build up his reputation as a stellar broadcaster.His one-line pay-offs at the end of each show, summing up both the fans' mood and the match, may have looked seamless.