In a joint statement, the five ministers warned that a large-scale assault on the territory would “aggravate the catastrophic humanitarian situation, endanger the lives of the hostages, and further risk the mass displacement of civilians”.
“The plans that the Government of Israel has announced risk violating international humanitarian law,” the ministers said.
Palestinians gather with pots and pans as a charity distributes meals in western Gaza City (Photo: Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty)
Under the plan, Israel’s five objectives are disarming Hamas, returning all hostages, demilitarising the Gaza Strip, taking security control of the territory, and establishing “an alternative civil administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority”.
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Much of the territory’s two million residents now live in refugee camps in central Gaza and along the Mediterranean coast.
Around 800,0000 civilians remain in the northern city, which has been largely destroyed by airstrikes since the start of the war in October 2023.
About 50 hostages remain in Gaza, at least 20 of whom are believed to be alive.
The foreign ministers also called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, as “the worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding”.
Benjamin Netanyahu has ignored his own military chief’s advice to announce an expanded offensive in Gaza (Photo: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)July was the worst month for cases of acute malnutrition in children in Gaza, affecting nearly 12,000 under the age of five, according to the World Health Organisation.
It prompted the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, to suggest that Britain would have lost the Second World War had Starmer been in No 10 at the time.
US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (Photo: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)
“Did UK surrender to Nazis and drop food to them? Ever heard of Dresden, PM Starmer? That wasn’t food you dropped. If you had been PM then UK would be speaking German.”
US Vice President JD Vance, who is currently visiting the UK on holiday, met with Lammy at his grace-and-favour country home in Kent on Friday.
Donald Trump’s administration had “no plans to recognise a Palestinian state”, he added.
More than 61,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched a widespread military assault on Gaza 22 months ago, in response to the Hamas October 7 attack.
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