Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett-Jones and we begin today with the dire situation in Gaza.
The food blockade has been in place since March 2nd.
There are now consistent reports of desperate shortages and emaciation.
And then today began with Israel launching an assault,
the start, it seemed, of a major new offensive.
And then there was more news from Hamas,
which said that it was involved in indirect ceasefire talks with Israel in Doha.
Well, let's begin our coverage with Umm Firaz al-Mazi.
She and her family were living in a tent in Deir al-Bala.
It was bombed overnight, killing a neighbour.
This is the 13th time we've been struck at the Aqsa Tented Camp.
Where should we go if the Aqsa Camp is not safe?
We left our bombed out houses and came here to the tented camp looking for safety.
Well, Dr Victoria Rose is a British surgeon working at a hospital in southern Gaza.
I mean, the main thing that we're seeing is the malnutrition.
People really are cachectic.
The children are really, really thin.
We've got a lot of youngsters whose teeth have fallen out.
One of my colleagues' daughter, she's got a two-year-old and her hair is thinning.