As the minute hand crept towards midnight, Shane Hatton lay awake in his hotel room in Lviv in Ukraine as sleep continued to escape him.
Israel's new ban on dozens of aid organisations working in Gaza will have catastrophic consequences for the delivery of vital services in the devastated territory and will put Palestinian lives at imminent risk, diplomats, humanitarian workers and experts say. Thirty-seven NGOs active in Gaza were told by Israel's ministry of diaspora affairs on Tuesday that they would have to cease all operations in the territory within 60 days unless they fulfilled stringent new regulations, which include the disclosure of personal details of their staff.