Israel expresses disappointment with three European nations after they demanded it take urgent action to allow aid into the Gaza Strip.
Britain, France and Germany had written to the Israel government to “urge action on the unacceptable humanitarian situation in Gaza,” UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said yesterday.
In a post on X, he said: “Israel must implement the UN’s winter plan now: send equipment to guard against cold & flooding, give access to fuel, repair vital infrastructure, and get aid in.”
Israel’s Foreign Ministry hits back, denying it was imposing any restrictions on the amount of aid entering Gaza.
“It is disappointing that the foreign ministers of the E3 (Britain, France and Germany) failed to address the October 7 massacre and the daily attacks on Israeli civilians since then in their letter,” spokesman Oren Marmorstein says in a statement.
“Israel is facilitating the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and does not impose any restrictions on the quantity of aid entering the Strip.”
Marmorstein said international organizations had failed “to distribute the aid due to looting by Hamas.”
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