{"id":663053,"date":"2025-12-30T18:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663053\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:58:11","slug":"uk-france-canada-and-others-voice-alarm-over-catastrophic-gaza-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663053\/","title":{"rendered":"UK, France, Canada and others voice alarm over &#8216;catastrophic&#8217; Gaza situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The humanitarian situation in Gaza has worsened again and is of serious concern, Britain, Canada, France and others said in a joint statement on Tuesday that also called on Israel to take urgent action.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The statement, published online by the British Foreign Office, said Israel should allow non-governmental organisations to work in Israel in a sustained and predictable way, and ensure the UN could continue its work in the Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">&#8220;(We) express serious concerns about the renewed deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Gaza which remains catastrophic,&#8221; read the statement from the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">It also said Israel should lift what it called &#8220;unreasonable restrictions&#8221; on certain imports including medical and shelter equipment, and open border crossings to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The humanitarian situation in Gaza has worsened again and is of serious concern, Britain, Canada, France and others&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-663053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115810055369154659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663053","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=663053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}