Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm Sean Lay.
Developments in the Middle East become thick and fast this week.
On Tuesday, the IPC, a UN-backed monitor group,
warned that the worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in the Gaza Strip.
Mounting pressure on Israel over the conditions in which civilians are living in Gaza culminated in US President Donald Trump declaring there was real starvation and that the Israelis must allow in every ounce of food.
Britain, meanwhile,
warned that unless Israel met a number of conditions before the UN General Assembly convenes next month,
it would join France in recognising a state of Palestine.
In fact, over the last couple of days,
members of the United Nations have been discussing exactly that issue.
We'll be talking about that a little later in the programme.
First, though, to the West Bank,
which has received comparatively little international attention since the war in Gaza began.
It, too, is subject to an Israeli occupation.
Attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians living there are on the rise,
up by 13 per cent over the past year, that's according to the UN.
Jewish settlements are illegal under international law and built on land which Palestinians want for a future state,
John Donnison reports.