Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
More than 5,000 Palestinians are believed to have been killed as Israel carries out retaliatory strikes for Hamas’ terrorist attacks on the country nearly three weeks ago which left 1,400 Israelis dead.Instead, ministers have supported calls for a “humanitarian pause” to let aid get into Gaza.
Dowden said: “I don’t think it’s a reasonable position to say, when Hamas has attacked Israel Israel needs to take action to protect itself, we can have a complete cessation of hostilities. “Israel has to take action to remove this threat against its civilians, which has cost it over a thousand lives.”He added: “The position of the UK government is what’s right, and what is right and it is right that we allow humanitarian aid in and it’s also the case that Israel has a right to defend itself against these terrorist attacks.
Dowden said: “This came about in the first place because the fences around Gaza were breached by Hamas terrorists - they charged in there and they murdered over a thousand people.”The deputy prime minister replied: “This hasn’t occurred in a vacuum. This has occurred in a situation where Israel is now seeking to take action to protect its civilians, its country, from this abhorrent terrorist attack and stop it happening again.
He insisted Israel was “seeking to minimise civilian casualties” and said the UK was urging Tel Aviv to respect international law.Dowden said: “Of course I’ve seen the pictures and it’s heartbreaking, the loss of any innocent civilian life. But the way that we stop this continuing violence is to eliminate the risk of Hamas terrorist attacks from Gaza.
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