JOHN YANG: Good evening.
I'm John Yang.
In the Israel Hamas war today was a day of impeded progress and made Gaza's worsening humanitarian crisis.
Hamas fired rockets at Israeli forces near the main entry point for aid that led Israel to close the gateway.
The Israeli military said three soldiers were killed.
The Kerem Shalom crossing has been a lifeline for more than a million displaced Palestinians in need of food, water and medicine.
And in Cairo, the latest round of talks aimed at a hostage release and ceasefire deal has ended as Hamas negotiators went back to Qatar, there to return to Cairo on Tuesday.
Hamas is holding to its position that they would only release hostages in exchange for a permanent ceasefire.
That's something Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says is out of the question.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, Prime Minister, Israel (through translator): But while Israel has shown willingness, a mosque remains entrenched in its extreme positions, first among them the demand to remove all our forces from the Gaza Strip and the war and leave commerce and power.
The State of Israel cannot accept that.
JOHN YANG: And the Israeli cabinet voted to shut down Al Jazeera has operations in Israel shortly after the main cable provider took it off the air.
The Foreign Press Association in Israel called it a dark day for media and democracy.
In Kenya, the interior ministry said the death toll from flooding and landslides has risen to 228.
Torrential rains have battered Kenya for weeks and are forecast to get worse.
Homes, roads and bridges have been destroyed, and more than 200,000 people have been displaced.
Ukraine marked its third orthodox Easter at war with Russia.
Ukrainians flocked to churches even as Russia kept up its assault on the Eastern front, behind the front line of Chaplin held mass and bless soldiers who showed the signs of being outgunned and outmanned.
In his Easter dress President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said God has a Ukrainian flag on his shoulder.
And the art world has lost one of its great innovators.
Frank Stella died of lymphoma yesterday at his New York City home.
His paintings and sculptures are distinguished by his use of geometric patterns and shapes.
When critics tried to interpret his work, he said, what you see is what you see, a phrase that became the unofficial motto of the minimalist movement.
Frank Stella was 87 years old.
Still to come on PBS News Weekend what a shifting civil war means for the future of Myanmar, and a new book details the personal struggles and triumphs of those living with mental health issues.
