This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Jackie Leonard and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 19th of May. These are our main stories.

Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will take control of all of Gaza to prevent Hamas looting aid

after agreeing to allow food supplies in again following heavy pressure from the US. The UK and the

European Union are announcing a series of deals to improve post-Brexit relations. Also, in this

podcast, a BBC investigation finds evidence that children are being trafficked into illegal minds in South Africa

and sexually abused. The trauma that they had gone through, they start by grooming them. They start

by acting like they like them. Israel imposed an aid blockade on Gaza in March, saying Hamas was stealing the aid that have been going in.

Foreign journalists aren't free to go into Gaza so we can't check for ourselves,

but reports are coming out of rising levels of hunger and associated deaths.

After international pressure, Israel says it will now allow a limited amount of food into Gaza.

The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it's all part of the plan, and Israel still intends

to take control of the entire Gaza Strip.

From the beginning of the war, we said that in order to complete the victory, defeat Hamas,

and free all

our hostages, tasks that are intertwined, there's one necessary condition. We must not reach

a state of starvation, both from a practical and a political point of view. We simply won't

get support. We won't be able to complete the mission of victory. The United Nations will

be involved in distributing the aid.

Here's the UN's Olga Cherovco.

The entry of aid is extremely urgent, and the needs here are beyond events.

I mean, they are catastrophic levels.

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