Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the World Service of the BBC coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett-Jones.
Well,
the Israeli military says it is reviewing reports that one of its airstrikes in Gaza killed nine children.
from the same family.
It says one of its aircraft was targeting suspects in the area at the time,
but beyond that, there's no explanation yet as to what happened.
Now,
the deaths have caused headlines around the world and come at a time when there are signs of some Western governments expressing opposition to what Israel is doing,
the UK, France and Canada.
jointly wrote a letter which opened with,
we strongly oppose the expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza,
the level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable,
and the EU is reviewing... trade arrangements,
and Spain is hosting a meeting preparing for a high-level international conference on the two-state solution at the UN in New York.
Well, the mother of the children worked as a paediatric doctor at the hospital in Gaza,
and she was at work, so she escaped this.
And for more details of what happened...
We managed to reach a colleague of hers in the same hospital, Dr. Milena Angolova-Chi,
Bulgarian doctor who treated the father of the children,