Surge in West Bank violence

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached new desperate levels this week. US Middle East envoy visited one of the controversial aid sites run by US-Israeli back group the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The UN has described the sites as "death traps".

Also in the programme: A consultant who worked on the award winning film "No other land", Awdah Hathaleen,31,was shot dead in Umm Al-Khair village. Basel Adra, his friend and colleague and director of the film talks to us; and the 20th century's most influential musician Woody Guthrie's granddaughter Anna Canoni and daughter Nora Guthrie tells us why Woody's music is so special.

Presenter Rebecca Kesby is joined by Olga Oliker, Programme Director for Europe and Central Asia at the International Crisis Group and Eric Albert, a French journalist and European Economic Correspondent for the French daily, Le Monde.

Photo: Funeral of Khamis Ayyad, a Palestinian-American who was killed in an attack by Israeli settlers, in Silwad. 1 August 2025/Reuters