Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in London.
I'm Tim Franks.
The conflict in Gaza is being tugged in two directions.
There's been talk of progress towards a new limited deal for Hamas to release some Israeli hostages,
for Israel to cease fire in Gaza to allow in much more aid to release some Palestinian prisoners.
But dozens are still being reported killed in daily airstrikes.
And there's also the insistent cry that millions of people in Gaza are being driven to barely conceivable levels of suffering,
of starvation.
And that is only worsening.
We'll hear in a moment from the former top official at the UN on humanitarian affairs on how that has come to pass and his thoughts on how perhaps the UN and other aid agencies can reassure Israel that aid deliveries do bypass the militant groups to get securely just to civilians.
But before that,
let's get an update on the latest killings and also the indirect talks being hosted in Qatar involving negotiators from Israel and Hamas.
Our correspondent in Jerusalem is Wira Davis.
Wira, I guess we should begin, first of all, with reports of many more people killed in Gaza.
What can you tell us of that?
Yeah, hi, Tim.
Look,
the latest figures are that well over 130 people have been killed across Gaza in airstrikes overnight and this morning in the south,
particularly in an area called Al-Mawassi.