Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
And we're beginning with Gaza, with the growing cries of desperation within that enclave,
but also what appears to be the growing outrage beyond Gaza and among governments which call themselves Friends of Israel.
After an 11-week blockade on aid into that impoverished, battered strip of territory,
the Israeli government announced at the weekend that it would let in what it described as basic levels of humanitarian relief.
The United Nations said today that it had received permission for 100 trucks carrying aid to enter Gaza,
a fraction of what is needed to alleviate the extreme suffering among the 2 million-plus Palestinians.
But no aid, says the UN, has so far been able to be distributed.
Just how extreme the need is was set out in the most graphic terms by the UN's humanitarian chief,
Tom Fletcher, on BBC Radio earlier today.
Let me describe what is on those trucks.
This is baby food, baby nutrition.
There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.
This is not food that Hamas are going to steal.
We run the risk of looting.
We run the risks of being hit as part of the Israeli military offensive.
We run all sorts of risks trying to get that baby food through to those mothers who cannot feed their children right now
because they're malnourished.