Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
And we begin with the news that the UN-backed,
internationally recognised group which looks at food insecurity has confirmed there is now famine in Gaza City.
More than half a million people live in what are officially termed catastrophic conditions and that the situation,
already dire across the rest of the embattled enclave, is only likely to deteriorate.
Over the next 10 months,
the projection is that 132,000 children under the age of five are at risk of death from acute malnutrition.
The Israeli government has issued several very strongly worded rebuttals today.
Every forecast this body, the IPC,
has made regarding Gaza during the war has proven baseless and completely false,
said the Foreign Ministry in a statement.
This assessment, too, will be thrown in the despicable trash bin of political documents.
It's our main story this hour,
and we'll begin with the UN's top humanitarian official, Tom Fletcher.
This is what he had to say in Geneva as the IPC report was released four hours ago.
Please read the IPC report.
Cover to cover.
Read it in sorrow and in anger.