Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett-Jones.
Now,
the Israeli military says it is reviewing reports that one of its airstrikes in Gaza killed nine children from the same family.
The deaths have caused headlines around the world and come at a time when some Western governments are expressing opposition.
to what Israel is doing.
Last week, the UK, France and Canada jointly wrote a letter which opened with this.
We strongly oppose the expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza.
The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable.
And then the EU said it was reviewing its trade and political relationship with Israel.
And today,
Spain hosted a meeting preparing a high-level international conference on the two-state solution at the UN headquarters.
in New York City.
That's upcoming.
Well, Guy Hedgcoe was covering the meeting in Madrid today.
First of all, who was there?
Well, it's attended by a number of Arab countries,
members of the Arab League, so foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
Turkey, Qatar, Jordan, and a Palestinian representative,
as well as representatives of EU countries, so Germany, the UK, France, Italy.