On Thursday Lord David Cameron is to meet with the Israeli minister Benny Gantz to warn him that the UK’s “patience is running thin.”
Lord Cameron said that a lot of aid is not being allowed to enter Gaza over claims they are “supposedly dual-use goods.”
The Foreign Secretary said there is “dreadful suffering” in Gaza and more than 30,700 Palestinians have now been killed in the territory since Israel launched their airstrikes and troops on the ground.
According to the Hamas-run health ministry a total of 30,717 have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israels offensive.
“We are facing a situation of dreadful suffering in Gaza,” Lord Cameron told the House of Lords on Tuesday.
“I spoke some weeks ago about the danger of this tipping into famine and the danger of illness tipping into disease – and we are now at that point.
“People are dying of hunger; people are dying of otherwise preventable diseases,” he said, adding that the amount of aid entering Gaza last month was half that in January.
“The patience needs to run very thin and a whole series of warnings needs to be given, starting, I hope, with a meeting I have with minister Gantz when he visits the UK tomorrow.”
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