Hello and welcome to News Hour from the World Service of the BBC coming live from London.

This is Owen Bennett-Jones.

Well, the Israeli military says it is reviewing reports that one of its airstrikes in Gaza killed nine children from the same family.

It says one of its aircraft was targeting suspects in the area at the time,

but beyond that, there's no explanation yet as to what happened. Now, the deaths have caused

headlines around the world and come at a time when there are signs of some Western governments

expressing opposition to what Israel is doing. The UK, France and Canada jointly wrote a letter which opened with,

we strongly opposed the expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza.

The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable,

and the EU is reviewing trade arrangements,

and Spain is hosting a meeting preparing for a high-level international conference

on the two-state solution at the UN in New York.

Well, the mother of the children worked as a pediatric doctor at the hospital in Gaza,

and she was at work, so she escaped this.

And for more details of what happened, we managed to reach a colleague of hers

in the same hospital, Dr. Melena Angelova Chi, Bulgarian doctor, who treated the father of the

children, and spoke to my colleague Lise Doucet yesterday.

Early in the morning, it was probably before 6 o'clock this morning. I went to intensive care. I wanted to see what is

happening. And in the corridor of the hospital in front of the intensive care, I was stopped by

this very slim, very tiny woman who said, I'm a doctor in this hospital.

Can you help me?

My husband is in intensive care and was bleeding.

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