Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur here's what's coming up.

Amid devastation in Gaza a pitch for peace, the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud

Olmerd and the former Palestinian Authority foreign minister, Nasser Al-Qidwa joined me on their plan to end the fighting

and bring the hostages home.

Then, back from Gaza, an American doctor tells me what he saw with his own eyes and we are here together because we

love our country. We love our country.

And I'm asking you to be for the first time in four years to be excited about the future of our country again.

Campaign crunch time with one week to go till America vote we get the latest on the state of the race.

Plus, dispatch from small town Pennsylvania.

Writer George Packer tells Walter Isakson the three factors that will decide the election. Oh, Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. We have

nothing to help but our bare hands, those words of utter despair in Gaza after a strike on a

multi-story building this morning killed almost a hundred people the health

ministry there says Palestinians at the scene said bodies were everywhere, some being buried immediately in makeshift

graves because official burial places are too dangerous to access.

More than a year of war in Gaza and now in Lebanon has killed tens of

thousands of people and although ceasefire talks are once again underway a

breakthrough seems unlikely. On Sunday, Egypt had reportedly proposed a two-day ceasefire

only for Prime Minister Netanyahu's office to say they had received no such proposals.

Moreover, according to Israeli media, Netanyahu's defense minister

Yov Galant has warned that his boss, he's warned his boss that the war is

lacking in strategy and needs a reset. Amid all of this an unlikely pair, two former

senior officials, Israeli and Palestinian, are proposing what they argue is a way out of war.

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