New British Foreign Secretary Calls for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza
Palestinian Authority PM Mustafa (R) and the new UK FM, David Lammy (L). Photo: X/ @DavidLammy
July 14, 2024 Hour: 6:33 pm
The new British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip this Sunday, during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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The death and destruction in Gaza is intolerable. This war must end now, with an immediate ceasefire, complied with by both sides. The fighting has got to stop” said the FM.
He also said that he is meeting with Palestinian and Israeli leaders “to stress the UK’s ambition and commitment to play its full diplomatic role in securing a ceasefire deal and creating the space for a credible and irreversible pathway towards a two-state solution.”
On this occasion, he met with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Mohammad Mustafa.
At his meeting, Mustafa stressed the need to make progress in efforts to stop the war of genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, to increase the introduction of humanitarian aid, and stop the attacks of occupation and settlers and the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, the Palestinian news agency, WAFA, said.
Mustafa discussed with Lammy the importance of strengthening British support for a Palestinian state, “which contributes to building institutional capacities and reviving the economic impact of the war on the Palestinian people,” the agency added.
United States, Qatar and Egypt are mediating to reach a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that allows humanitarian aid to enter the devastated Palestinian enclave and release the 116 hostages that the Islamist group has held captive in Gaza since it kidnapped them in their attack of October 7, when the war broke out.
Since 7 October last year more than 38,580 Gazans have died, most of them women and children, 88,881 others were injured, thousands are missing under the rubble, and 1.8 million are displaced among the famine, water shortages, the collapse of hospitals, as well as a lack of medicines and fuel.
Autor: ACJ
Fuente: EFE // gov.uk // AP // WAFA