British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he, along with the leaders of France and Canada, is horrified by the military escalation in Gaza, repeating calls for a ceasefire and declaring: “We cannot allow the people of Gaza to starve.”
“I want to put on record today that we’re horrified by the escalation from Israel,” Starmer tells parliament, after releasing a joint statement yesterday with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“We repeat our demand for a ceasefire as the only way to free the hostages, we repeat our opposition to settlements in the West Bank, and we repeat our demand to massively scale up humanitarian assistance into Gaza.”
He says, “The recent announcement that Israel will allow a basic quantity of food into Gaza is totally and utterly inadequate,” he said.
“So we must coordinate our response, because this war has gone on for far too long. We cannot allow the people of Gaza to starve.”
Starmer says Foreign Minister David Lammy will set out Britain’s “response in detail” later today.
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