{"id":289083,"date":"2025-07-24T23:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289083\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:02:10","slug":"suffering-in-gaza-is-indefensible-says-keir-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289083\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffering in Gaza is indefensible, says Keir Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There have been almost daily reports of Palestinians being killed while waiting for food since Israel partially lifted an 11-week total blockade on aid deliveries in May, following a two-month ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israel, along with the US, helped to establish a controversial new aid system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), but food and medicine shortages have worsened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The World Health Organization has said that a quarter of Gaza&#8217;s population is facing famine-like conditions, according to its assessments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israel has accused Hamas of instigating conflict near aid sites, and said its troops have only fired warning shots and do not intentionally shoot civilians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Monday, the UK joined 27 other countries in calling on Israel to &#8220;immediately lift restrictions&#8221; on the flow of aid, adding its aid delivery model was dangerous and deprived Gazans of &#8220;human dignity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Keir has faced recent pressure from some Labour MPs to take a stronger line on Israel, including calls for the government to change its position and recognise a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said it would only do so as part of a long-term political solution to the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been almost daily reports of Palestinians being killed while waiting for food since Israel partially lifted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-289083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114910707344614947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}