This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Jean-Ullat Jal and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 23rd of July.

These are our main stories.

Aid agencies warn that mass starvation in Gaza is spreading as 10 more deaths from malnutrition are reported.

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will be lower than previously threatened. President Zelensky faces major anti-corruption protests

as Ukraine prepares for talks with Russia. Also in this podcast?

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We hear how love letters from 60 years ago that were stolen have been returned to the couple who wrote them.

More than 100 international aid agencies and human rights groups are warning that mass starvation is spreading across Gaza.

They accuse Israel, which controls all the territory's border crossings of a siege and of not allowing food inside Gaza to be distributed.

Israel denies this.

The Hamas-run Health Ministry says 10 people have died from malnutrition in the past day after reporting more than 30 such deaths on Tuesday.

And its civil defence says that since early Wednesday morning, at least 17 Palestinians, including five

children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes. The Israel Defence Forces say they have hit

more than 100 terror targets across the strip, but a growing number of critics in Israel itself

question why the IDF are still fighting there. International media outlets are not

allowed to report freely from Gaza, but this expectant mother described her life there now.

My name is Huda Mottrabiyi. I live in Ad Darajneighborhood in the Gaza City. I am a first-time

mother expecting a baby girl any day now.

This should be one of the happiest moments of my life, but instead, it's a time of fear,

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