Britain will convene a meeting of the government's COBRA emergency response committee on Thursday to consider its strategy and approach towards Gaza and the Israeli-Hamas conflict, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden told Times Radio . Britain is pushing for a humanitarian pause to the conflict, an...
"Given that Hamas has embedded itself in the civilian population in Gaza, it's important that Israel takes all possible measures to protect ordinary Palestinians and facilitate humanitarian aid."
On Saturday, Hamas, an Islamist militant group that governs Gaza, launched a deadly attack on Israel, who formally declared war on Hamas a day later. The conflict has claimed more than 2,500 lives on both sides and injured thousands. The FA confirmed any flags and replica kits of Israel a...
In response to the letter, COGAT, the Israeli body which coordinates humanitarian aid to Gaza, invited Ms Kearns to "meet with COGAT and hear the full scale of Israel's humanitarian efforts towards the Gaza Strip". It comes as the US is set to call for an immediate c...
UK government response UK Foreign SecretaryDavid Cameronsent two letters to the Foreign Affairs Committee, one regarding the planned Israel invasion of Rafah, and the other regarding arms exports to Israel. In the first letter, he reiterated that the UK is against an Israeli invasion of Rafah ...
claiming that the ICC’s warrant is based on ‘false’ accusations made by ‘biased judges who are motivated by antisemitic sentiments against the one and only Jewish state’, and that ‘no war is more just than the war that Israel has been waging in Gaza’. US President Joe Bidenhas ca...
“According to figures from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israeli forces have opened fire into the Gaza Access Restricted Areas on land and sea on at least 696 occasions since then,” Ellwood stated in response. ...
More broadly, the UK public is split on the idea of a suspension of UK arms exports to Israel that might be used in Gaza, but allowing other arms exports to Israel to continue (29% support, 34% opposed). There is more support (though not quite a majority) for suspending all UK arms...
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A U.K.-based aid group said one of its employees in Gaza has been killed by an Israeli strike that hit its warehouse located inside an Israeli-declared humanitarian safe zone.