World leaders step up calls for desperately needed humanitarian aid to reach war-torn Gaza.
Britain Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and France President Emmanuel Macron stress “the importance of getting urgent humanitarian support” into the Palestinian territory, while UN chief Antonio Guterres says the situation is getting “more desperate by the hour.”
Sunak and Macron spoke by telephone and “agreed to work together on efforts both to get crucial food, fuel, water and medicine to those who need it, and to get foreign nationals out,” says a Downing Street spokesperson.
They expressed “their shared concern at the risk of escalation in the wider region, in particular in the West Bank,” and updated each other “on the conversations they have had with leaders in the region to stress the importance of working to ensure regional stability,” the readout of their conversation adds.
Sunak and Macron also “agreed that it was important not to lose sight of the long-term future of the region and, in particular, the need for a two-state solution.”
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