Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're starting in Gaza.
We've got an, in its way,
extraordinary intervention from the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to bring you in a moment.
First, though,
the news of the first full day of operation of this controversial new system of distributing aid in Gaza through a group,
it's called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, backed by the US and Israel.
And this first day was, judging by the pictures, pretty chaotic.
Barbara Pletusher is our correspondent in Jerusalem.
The foundation opened its aid site yesterday, Monday,
but not very many people came because there were a lot of fears.
They've been told that they might have to provide personal identification,
go through biometrics and that sort of thing.
Hamas had actually warned them through social media platforms not to go and it wasn't clear how the whole thing would work.
But then they turned out en masse today, Tuesday,
thousands of them to one particular site that opened in Rafah.
And it sounds like it was quite disorganized.
So they all came.