Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.

This is Owen Bennett Jones.

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

The deaths have caused headlines around the world and come at a time when some

Western governments are expressing opposition to what Israel is doing. Last week, the UK, France and

Canada jointly wrote a letter which opened with this. We strongly oppose the expansion of Israel's

military operations in Gaza. The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable.

And then the EU said it was reviewing its trade and political relationship with Israel.

And today, Spain hosted a meeting preparing a high-level international conference on the two-state solution at the UN headquarters in New York City.

That's upcoming. Well, Guy Hedgeco was covering the meeting in Madrid today. First of all,

who was there? Well, it's attended by a number of Arab countries, members of the Arab League,

so foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan and Palestinian

representative, as well as representatives of EU countries, so Germany, the UK, France, Italy.

Also, Brazil as well, has representation at the meeting. So it's the idea is that it's a sort of meeting of Arab countries

with European countries to find some common ground on the issue of Gaza. It's quite interesting

because some of the European countries, you know, if you take Ireland, for example, or Spain

itself, maybe some ways more critical of Israel than some of the Gulf countries?

Yes, that's right.

I mean, some of those present, you've got Ireland, Norway, and Slovenia, all those countries,

along with Spain last year, acknowledged Palestinian statehood, and that was a move which

angered Israel,

and there were diplomatic reprisals taken as well.

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