The Prime Minister said the UK is doing ‘everything we can to ensure security’ of Britons after suggestions they could be among Hamas hostages.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said Israel has “every right to defend itself” from Hamas attacks but stressed that civilian safety must be “paramount in our minds”.
According to the United Nations, Israel’s military has told some one million Palestinians living in the north of Gaza to evacuate ahead of an expected ground invasion.The Prime Minister told broadcasters at the Joint Expeditionary Force summit in Gotland, Sweden: “Of course we should always — and we are always — having concerns of civilians paramount in our minds.
The war has claimed at least 2,800 lives on both sides since Hamas launched an incursion on October 7, with Israel placing the 25-mile Gaza Strip under siege and subjecting it to a torrent of retaliatory air strikes.Defence Secretary Grant Shapps told ITV’s Good Morning Britain he would treat Hamas’s claim with “caution” but “deep concern”.
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