Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service

Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. We're starting in Gaza. We've got an, in its way,

extraordinary intervention from the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to bring you in a moment.

First, though, the news of the first full day of operation of this controversial new system

of distributing aid in Gaza through a group, it's called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,

backed by the US and Israel.

And this first day was, by the pictures pretty chaotic. Barbara

Plet Usher is a correspondent in Jerusalem. The foundation opened its aid site yesterday, Monday, but not very

many people came because there were a lot of fears. They've been told that they might have to provide

personal identification, go through biometrics, and that sort of thing.

Hamas had actually warned them through social media platforms not to go, and it wasn't clear how the

whole thing would work.

But then they turned out en masse today, Tuesday, thousands of them to one particular site that opened

in Rafa.

And it sounds like it was quite disorganized.

So they all came. And then as they were waiting, people started to push forward and they, it sounds like it was quite disorganized. So they all came and then as they were

waiting, people started to push forward to try and take some aid. And there wasn't a clear distribution

process. They didn't actually have to show any identification. They were just told to take boxes.

So people started grabbing boxes and pushing forward. And then there was gunfire. And that scared

some and some started to run away, but others kept pushing forward. And then there was gunfire. And that scared some and some

started to run away, but others kept pushing forward. So it ended up being completely chaotic.

And the aid organization, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, said that what had happened at a certain

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