Sheikh Abdullah discusses Gaza crisis with UK Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron

UAE Foreign Minister also holds talks with his Israeli counterpart as well as the UN's humanitarian and reconstruction chief in Gaza

Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Minister of Foreign Affairs, discussed the Israel-Gaza war in a phone call with British Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron, Israel's Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz and Sigrid Kaag of the UN. WamShow less

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Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Minister of Foreign Affairs, on Monday discussed the continuing Gaza crisis with British Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron.

He also made telephone calls to Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz and Sigrid Kaag, the UN's chief co-ordinator for humanitarian and reconstruction in Gaza.

During the calls, Sheikh Abdullah stressed the UAE was keen to co-ordinate with the international community to end extremism, tension and escalating violence in the Middle East, as well as to support the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

Sheikh Abdullah indicated the immediate priority was to end the violence in the Gaza Strip, as well as protect the lives of civilians living in the enclave and ensuring humanitarian aid is delivered without barriers.

During his call with Ms Kaag, Sheikh Abdullah said the UAE fully supported her efforts and endeavours to co-operate to strengthen the response to the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

More than 10,000 children have been killed in almost 100 days of war in Gaza, Save the Children reported, quoting figures from the enclave's Health Ministry.

The deaths amount to almost 1 per cent of the estimated 1.1 million children in Gaza.

A total of 23,469 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war, according to the ministry, with women and children making up about 70 per cent of the casualties.

Most of those have been killed by Israeli air strikes and shelling, which have pounded the densely populated enclave daily since the start of the war on October 7.

Another 60,000 Palestinians have been injured, ministry spokesman Ashraf Al Qudra said.

The ministry said Israeli forces killed 112 Palestinians and injured 194 on the 97th day of the war, which began with a Hamas attack on southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people on October 7.

100 days of Israel-Gaza war – in pictures

Palestinian Muhammad Al Durra with his children in the ruins of a house in Rafah where they sheltered on January 11, 2024. EPA

Family and friends at the funerals of journalists Hamza Al Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya on January 7, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. Getty Images

Palestinians mourn relatives killed by Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a mortuary in Khan Younis January 4, 2024. AP Photo

Displaced Palestinians queue to bake bread at a camp in the Muwasi area of Rafah, Gaza Strip, on December 23, 2023. AP Photo

Palestinians queue for food in Rafah, the Gaza Strip, on December 20, 2023. AP Photo

The ruins of Rafah on December 14, 2023. AFP

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip arrive at a hospital in Khan Younis on December 8, 2023. AP Photo

Palestinians flee Israeli bombing along the Salaheddine Road in the Zeitoun district of Gaza city on November 28, 2023. AFP

A Red Cross vehicle takes Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip into Egypt in Rafah on November 25, 2023. AP

The ruins of buildings in Gaza city on November 24, 2023, as a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas took effect. AP Photo

A woman and her cat return home to eastern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip during the first hours of a four-day truce between Israel and Hamas forces on November 24, 2023. AFP

Mourning the dead of Israeli bombardment outside the mortuary at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on November 14, 2023. AFP

Civilians and rescuers look for survivors in the rubble of a building after Israeli bombing of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 12, 2023. AFP

November 7, 2023, a month to the day after Hamas attacked Israel, a victim of an Israeli bombardment in Rafah is moved from the rubble. AFP

Searching the rubble after Israeli air strikes on the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on October 26, 2023. AP Photo

Mourning the Kotz family at their funeral in Gan Yavne, Israel, on October 17, 2023. AP Photo

An Israeli firefighter composes himself after he and his colleagues extinguished cars set on fire by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Israel, on October 9, 2023. AP Photo

Palestinians with the wreckage of an Israeli tank at the Gaza Strip fence east of the city of Khan Younis on October 7, 2023, the day Hamas forces swept unopposed into Israel. AP Photo

Israeli police officers evacuate a woman and a child from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on October 7, 2023. AP Photo