Move to join US-led maritime corridor follows international fury at last week’s killing of seven aid workers
The Royal Navy was ordered into action on Saturday to help supply desperately needed aid to Gaza, as the foreign secretary,, Downing Street said on Saturday that ministers would instead boost support for a planned new maritime corridor from Cyprus to Gaza, to channel “life-saving aid” by sea to a population in urgent need of basic food supplies.
The WCK deliveries, which were unloaded at a makeshift jetty near the central town of Deir al-Balah that was constructed by volunteers from rubble, are separate to theThe announcement on increased aid is unlikely to reduce calls for both the UK and US governments to stop supplying arms to Israel.
Israel denies blocking aid, saying any shortages are a result of logistics failures by humanitarian organisations or Hamas diverting supplies.Alicia Kearns, the Tory MP and chair of the foreign affairs select committee, as saying that the Foreign Office’s own lawyers had concluded that Israel was in breach of international law and that the UK as a result had to halt arms sales. This was not denied by the Foreign Office.
Sunak added: “This terrible conflict must end. The hostages must be released. The aid – which we have been straining every sinew to deliver by land, air and sea – must be flooded in. The children of Gaza need a humanitarian pause immediately, leading to a long-term sustainable ceasefire.” The number of aid lorries entering the territory over the past five months has been far below the 500 a day that entered before the war, and getting assistance to where it is most needed has been made difficult by damaged roads, a lack of fuel, a breakdown of public order and what aid agencies have described as, told Biden last week that Israel would reopen a key land crossing into Gaza, allow more aid through another crossing and open an Israeli port to aid deliveries after a warning in the...
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