Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer call for ‘humanitarian pauses’ … but not a ceasefire
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that temporary breaks or “specific pauses” in the violence could allow British nationals and hostages to be freed and aid to be supplied to the Gaza Strip.
But the government has continued to back Israel’s “right to defend itself,” and resist calls for a ceasefire.
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[Zionist] Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who has also resisted calls to support a ceasefire, said on Wednesday evening that the amount of aid and essential utilities going into Gaza was “completely insufficient.”
In a statement, he called for supplies to be “urgently ramped up” and added that “we support humanitarian pauses.”
However, Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal hit out at Sir Keir, telling him to “stop playing games with people’s lives.”
He wrote on social media platform X: “Aid cannot be safely delivered without a ceasefire. Nor can infrastructure be repaired which is necessary for life.
“If you care about the lives of innocent Palestinians, then call for a ceasefire now or you remain complicit.”
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