Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron wants 'maximum effort' to get humanitarian help to the Port of Ashdod.
Displaced Palestinians prepare to evacuate a tent camp after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of Rafah, amid ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip The UK Government is pressuring aid agencies to step up humanitarian deliveries for Gaza to the Port of Ashdod in Israel.
The key Rafah crossing to allow aid to enter Gaza was seized and closed by Israel earlier this week as it beganagainst Hamas in the city, where around 1.2m civilians have been sheltering following military action across the rest of the Strip. It came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country can “stand alone” after US President Joe Biden warned against a full-scale invasion of Rafah and suspended a planned delivery of heavy bombs to Israel over fears they could cause civilian deaths in the city.
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