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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 beginning in Gaza with what humanitarian agencies say are faint glimmers of a reprieve.
The news is not of a ceasefire but of what Israel calls today's 10-hour pause in military activity in parts of the enclave.
And news,
not of the 500-600 trucks of aid the agencies say are needed each day to fend off mass starvation,
but more than had been coming in up to now.
To be precise, on Sunday, when this new system began, 120 trucks,
at least according to the Israeli military body, it's called Kogat, which oversees these matters.
Israel has long accused Hamas of trying to divert aid and of the UN not doing enough to supply it.
But at the same time,
Israeli ministers have talked about squeezing or even entirely blocking aid to Gaza's more than two million Palestinians in order to pressure Hamas to release Israeli hostages.
Such a tactic has caused what the United Nations describes as man-made starvation.
To which the Israeli government spokesman David Mensah had this to say just before we came on air.
Over 258 trucks entered Gaza in the last week alone.
That's 258 trucks which have entered Gaza in the last week alone.
600 trucks have already been distributed by the UN and other international agencies but of course hundreds more are waiting at the crossings ready to go.
Now this aid includes food, water, medicine, and medical equipment,
and it's been facilitated by Israel and the Israel Defense Forces.