Hello and welcome to News Hour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're starting in Gaza and it's a story which, to be honest,
we've rather ignored over the last couple of weeks or at least underplayed because of the war between Israel and Iran.
But we're coming back to it today and indeed devoting a fair bit of the programme to it because of the huge and continuing controversy over the new system of distributing aid there.
and the fact that hundreds of people are dying while trying to collect that aid.
There'd be more casualties today.
In 30 minutes we'll bring you our first interview.
We've been trying to get one for weeks now.
The first interview with the head of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation that's running this new system.
The Foundation is backed by the US and Israel.
We've said that for a while.
One of the things that is new today is that for the first time the US has publicly announced that it's funding it.
with a grant of $30 million.
The US State Department spokesman is Tommy Pickett.
Ultimately, we want to see aid reach the people of Gaza.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has delivered 46 million meals.
We've seen that.
We want to see that food being delivered.