US and Israeli soldiers as well as military representatives from more than 20 other countries, diplomats and aid workers, are now based at a warehouse in southern Israel, monitoring the almost six-week-old ceasefire in Gaza.

The US-led Civil-Military Coordination Centre (CMCC) is tasked with managing the next stages of President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, including the entry of humanitarian supplies and plans for reconstruction.

However, there is no formal Palestinian representation there, which has prompted criticism.

Our Middle East correspondent Yolande Knell was given access to the site.

Volodymyr Zelensky will speak to Donald Trump after the US presented Ukraine with a draft peace plan to end the war with Russia.

The plan was reportedly drafted by US special envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev, without Ukraine’s involvement.

In a statement, Zelensky’s office said the US believed the draft plan could “help reinvigorate diplomacy” and added that Ukraine had “agreed to work on the plan’s provisions in a way that would bring about a just end to the war”.

Kyiv supported “all substantive proposals capable of bringing genuine peace closer,” the statement said.

The Ukrainians did not share any details of what the proposal entails, although according to sources quoted by Axios, the Financial Times and Reuters, it includes plans for Kyiv to give up areas of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine that it still controls, to cut significantly the size of its army, and to forego many of its weapons.

If confirmed, these demands would be heavily slanted towards Moscow’s interest – explaining Kyiv’s lukewarm reaction to the draft.

The White House said Trump had grown “frustrated” with both Russia and Ukraine “for their refusal to commit to a peace agreement” and his team had been working on a “detailed and acceptable” peace plan.

Yet Moscow downplayed the significance of the plan, which is rumoured to include 28 points.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that while there had been “contacts” with the US there was “no process that could be called ‘consultations'”.

The statement from Zelensky’s office came after a meeting in Kyiv on Thursday between the Ukrainian president and senior US military figures, including US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, army chief of staff Gen Randy George and top US army commander in Europe Gen Chris Donahue.

Neither Ukraine nor its European partners were involved in drafting the new plan, and on Thursday European foreign ministers warned against coming up with proposals without consulting Kyiv or Brussels.

“For any plan to work, it needs Ukrainians and Europeans on board,” said EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.

A senior US official told the BBC that special envoy Steve Witkoff had received input from both the Ukrainians and the Russians “on what terms are acceptable to them to end the war”.

“Both sides will have to make concessions, not just Ukraine,” the official said.

Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, warned that any peace deal would have to address the “root causes of the conflict” – a phrase Moscow has used as shorthand for a series of maximalist demands which, to Ukraine, are tantamount to surrender.

Ukrainian MP Lisa Yasko told the BBC that Ukraine had “not been consulted”.

“It looks like someone wants to decide things for us,” she said. “And that’s very painful for most of us Ukrainians.”

Since starting his second term earlier this year, Trump has launched into various initiatives aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, including a bilateral summit with Putin in Alaska, several visits by his envoy Witkoff to Moscow, and rounds of talks with Zelensky and other Western leaders.

But as the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears, the two sides remain deeply at odds over how to end the conflict.

While Ukraine has become adept at targeting Russian military infrastructure and energy facilities with long-range drones, Moscow’s attacks on Ukrainian targets continue unabated.

Earlier this week, at least 26 people were in a Russian missile and drone attack on blocks of flats in Ukraine’s western city of Ternopil. More than people were still missing at the site on Thursday.

Spain’s Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, has been forced to step down after being found guilty of revealing confidential information in a deeply controversial case, which accentuated the country’s political division.

The Supreme Court found that García Ortiz had unlawfully revealed details of the tax status of businessman Alberto González Amador, boyfriend of a senior conservative politician.

The court handed him a two-year ban from the post and a fine of €7,200 (£6,438). He must also pay €10,000 to Mr González Amador as compensation.

The trial of García Ortiz fuelled already acrimonious relations between the left-wing government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and right-wing opposition.

Their contrasting positions were underlined by reactions to the conviction.

“Sánchez must apologise to Spaniards, resign and call elections, in that order,” said Ester Muñoz, spokeswoman for the conservative People’s Party.

The government said it did not agree with the ruling but respected it and would proceed with the appointment of a new attorney general.

However, a number of politicians on the left expressed outrage at what they saw as a politically motivated ruling.

Health Minister Mónica García, of the Sumar party, said the conviction dealt a “lethal blow to [the concept of] presumption of innocence” and threw ordinary Spaniards “under the bus” when it came to the rule of law.

The complex case dates back to March 2024, when the attorney general’s office issued a press release stating that Mr González Amador had requested a plea bargain after being found to have evaded tax payments worth €350,951.

The document corrected mistaken press reports stating that the attorney general’s office had proposed the bargain.

The source of the incorrect reports was the head of communications of the conservative regional president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Ms Díaz Ayuso is the partner of Mr González Amador.

Mr González Amador filed a complaint against the attorney general, claiming his privacy had been breached. The case against García Ortiz also saw him accused of leaking information about the affair to the media. Prosecutors pointed to the attorney general’s decision to change his phone as incriminating.

However, there was no direct evidence linking García Ortiz to the leak and several journalists testified during the trial that he had not been the source of their information. Regarding the press statement, the attorney general said he was simply correcting the erroneous reports.

García Ortiz can appeal against the ruling.

This comes as a severe blow for the prime minister, who has been under judicial pressure on various fronts.

His brother is due to go on trial for influence peddling, his wife is under investigation for her business activities and two former senior figures in the Socialist Party, José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, are accused of overseeing a massive kickback scheme.