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Hello, welcome to the programme. It's News Hour from the BBC World Service. I'm Paul Henley. We're live from London.

First, Israel has criticised a new batch of Western countries at the UN for formally recognizing

Palestine as a sovereign state. Israel's ambassador to the UN accused Britain, France, and nine other

nations traditionally allied with Israel, of moving on and forgetting the plight of hostages.

The country's decision, which they say aims to keep alive, the prospect

of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, comes ahead of reports President

Trump will meet a group of Arab and Muslim leaders today for talks on post-war governance

for Gaza. He's also due to address the UN General Assembly. Here's President Macron

saying why France had recognized Palestinian statehood.

We must do everything in our power to preserve the very possibility of a two-state solution,

Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

Well, the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, blocked by the US from attending

the New York summit, laid out his vision via video link of how an independent Palestinian state might be governed.

Hamas will have no role in governing.

Hamas and other factions must surrender their weapons to the Palestinian Authority.

What we want is one unified state without weapons, a state with one law and one legitimate security forces.

While all this diplomacy happens in New York, the conflict continues in Gaza as Israeli troops continue to advance into Gaza City, prompting civilians to flee.

Martin Griffiths is a British surgeon working for Med UK at a field hospital, some 30 kilometres south of Gaza City.

He's seeing the impact of a mass evacuation where he is.

A lot of people now are even more hungry, everybody's starving, even more malnourished,

even more desperate.

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