Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
It feels like pretty much every day, in fact sometimes several times every day,
we get new rumblings about how talks on a ceasefire in Gaza are going.
That there's a new proposal, that one side, Israel or Hamas,
has accepted or rejected it or is trying to tweak it.
That X is in the room and that could mean Y. We don't,
to be honest, bring you every twist and turn,
as much as anything,
because there are so many suggestions of progress which then don't really amount to much.
Just remember that it took a year to negotiate the second ceasefire,
which itself collapsed after two months back in March,
as Israel launched heavy strikes across Gaza and began its 11-week blockade of aid into the territory.
So why talk about the latest proposals now?
Well, it's for two reasons,
that there seems to be particularly intense diplomatic activity and movement right now,
and that, of course,
the situation in Gaza is so extreme with the killing and the displacement and the hunger to go with the agony in Israel for the families of the 58 remaining hostages.
Among them is Omri Miran,