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.
And we're starting the programme in Gaza with one specific new development which comes amid a bigger and ever more alarming picture.
The new development has been the Israeli assault on the central Gazan city of Deir al-Bala,
which has seen World Health Organization facilities attack staff detained to the outrage of senior WHO officials.
We'll get more on that in just a moment.
But as a measure of the bigger picture, well, we have two new statistics today.
One is from elsewhere in the United Nations saying that since late May,
the Israeli military has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians seeking aid.
figures which the Israel Defense Forces dispute.
The other statistic comes from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry that more than 33 people,
including 12 children, have died of malnutrition just in the last two days.
Asma Mustafa is one of those who can attest to the hunger and the insecurity over the search for food.
Asma incidentally won the Global Teacher Award in 2020.
She's been forced to flee her home in Gaza City, flee westwards to the coast.
She sent the BBC this voice note.
I couldn't believe it.
This is the ninth time that I am being displaced with my two daughters, with my family.
I couldn't believe it.