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British Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron said on Thursday that he wants to see a pause in fighting in Gaza, leading to a “sustainable ceasefire”, followed by the reintroduction of a Palestinian government in the enclave.
"I think we would have to see the Hamas leadership leave Gaza," he told Sky News Arabia. "We would have to be clear that Hamas were no longer capable of rockets and terror attacks."
A “refreshed and revitalised” Palestinian Authority does have a role to play in the future of Gaza, Lord Cameron said.
“It should be the Palestinians running the Palestinian state,” he said.
On the issue of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Lord Cameron has a clear idea of what is required, calling for 500 lorries a day to cross the border with vital aid.
He said the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel must be “open all week, every day of the week”, with the Port of Ashdod also made available.
“The United Nations staff inside Gaza, they need visas to get staff in, they need armoured cars to get the food and other aid around Gaza, and they also need the fuel to deliver that,” he said.
Lord Cameron also called for the water to be switched back on in Gaza.
“Ultimately, Israel bears a big responsibility for making sure that there isn't hunger, there isn't starvation, there isn't disease in Gaza,” he said.
He said Israel, Egypt and the UK have things to do to make sure aid is getting through.
100 days of Israel Gaza war – in pictures
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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
Lord Cameron said the UK is “standing up for the freedom of navigation” in the Red Sea amid an escalation in attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.
“We gave warning after warning and military action was very much the last resort,” he said.
“But ultimately you have to back your words and your warnings with action in order that people can see you're very serious about the issue that you're raising.”
Lord Cameron said he had held numerous calls with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in recent days, despite the two countries having a “difficult relationship”.
Lord Cameron said relations are strained because of the support Iran gives to Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, who are behind the attacks in the Red Sea.
