Gaza: Israel

(asked on 4th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has taken steps to support a ceasefire south of the Wadi in Gaza.


Answered by
David Rutley Portrait
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 12th December 2023

Israel has a right to self-defence and needs to be able to address the threat posed by Hamas, in a manner that abides by International Humanitarian Law. The UK is supportive of humanitarian pauses, and the temporary cessation of hostilities, to enable humanitarian organisations to deliver aid and give respite to civilians. The recent pause was a welcome opportunity to get hostages out and to allow increased amounts of aid and fuel in. The UK continues to press, both at the UN and directly with Israel, for unhindered humanitarian access and further substantive, repeated humanitarian pauses; to tackle the humanitarian crisis, we need an immediate and sustained humanitarian pause to allow aid in at scale and Israel to open Kerem Shalom fully.

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