Thanks everyone for joining us this evening.

We've got a tremendous event lined up, really, really tremendous.

For the first half of the evening, I'll be talking to Kieran Andrea.

He's an incredibly courageous person.

He just spent, I think, the best part of a month at sea. He was briefly in

detention in the Ngev Desert at the leisure of Benjamin Netanyahu in the Israeli government.

There's a really powerful statistic I've been talking about recently when it comes to Gaza, when it comes

to Palestine, because very often in our line of work,

you meet people, members of the public,

or people in the media, or even politics,

and they say, why is this so important?

Why do you care so much about this, but not X, Y, Z conflicts?

And sometimes that's a fair question.

But it really does neglect the singular nature of what's happened in

Gaza over the last two years so here is a statistic that really sticks in my mind

anyway the Gaza strip is more or less the same size as the Isle of White and

yet in terms of munitions by weight it's been subject to more than Dresden, Hamburg, and London combined

over the whole of the Second World War.

More munitions by weight on this tiny strip of land

with two and a half million people from those three very large cities

over a period of six years of conflict.

Of course, the bombings didn't last that long.

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