Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. As

Gaza's death toll continues to climb, will the war expand? I ask Israeli columnists Gideon Levy. Then I

discuss the threat of a regional conflict with director of the Middle East

program at London's Chatham House Think tank. Also ahead, is Israel actually listening to its strongest allies?

Former British Cabinet Minister turned podcast host Rory Strut joins me on that

and the UK is changing political landscape.

Plus, the upcycled self, a new memoir from Grammy winning artist Tarique Trotter.

He speaks to Harry Strynevassen about music and his childhood brief. Oh, Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. One in every

hundred that is the staggering number of people killed in Gaza over the past

three months according to Palestinian authorities. That's more than 23,000

people and nearly two-thirds of them are women and children.

That human toll is front and center

as Western officials visit the region,

expressing increasing concern about the situation.

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin today has been meeting top officials in Israel

to get them to do more to protect civilians, allow humanitarian aid in, and to try to prevent a wider war that might spread into Lebanon

for instance. German foreign minister Analena Berbach has visited the occupied West Bank

where she condemned Israeli settlers violence

towards Palestinians and today she spoke in Cairo Egypt. Take a listen.

If we are talking about permanent peace, then it must above all be insured through security.

We always spoke about that in the past.

My country knows what that means.

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