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

I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and in the early hours of Tuesday,

the 17th of October, these are our main stories.

The desperate situation facing people fleeing their homes in Gaza

is the hope any aid will get through.

We have nothing that we need to live, says one man.

We're living in a dump, and if we move, we will die.

Iran says the prospect of the war between Hamas and Israel

spreading to other fronts is becoming inevitable,

and two Swedish people have been shot dead in Brussels.

The gunman is still on the loose.

We have the latest from the Belgian capital.

Also in this podcast, the US is reeling after a six-year-old boy

is stabbed to death, reportedly for being Muslim.

It hits home. You don't feel safe now.

Someone on Facebook literally I was going after me right now.

Call me a terrorist.

And another art gallery in the UK admits to having lost more than 1,700 items,

including a piece that's worth more than three and a half million dollars.

But first, there were hopes on Monday morning that a temporary ceasefire

would allow the only border crossing between Gaza and Egypt to open,

which would allow foreign nationals to leave and humanitarian aid to enter.

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