Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on another humanitarian pause in Gaza.

We maintain a continuous dialogue with Israel where we stress the critical importance of humanitarian law and avoiding civilian casualties. The Foreign Secretary discussed this with the Israeli President during his recent visit. We continue to press, both at the UN and directly with Israel, for unhindered humanitarian access and further substantive, repeated humanitarian pauses. To be successful, pauses need to be agreed by all parties to the conflict and have enough time given to humanitarian organisations in advance, so they can scale up aid flows and distribution successfully.