‘Unjustifiable’ Israeli assaults should finish, warns Streeting after Netanyahu breaks Gaza ceasefire | EUROtoday

A senior UK authorities minister has condemned Israeli assaults towards Palestinians that “cannot be justified as self-defence”, warning: “It has got to stop.”

Speaking every week after Israel shattered a two-month ceasefire in Gaza with a few of its deadliest strikes because the early months of the conflict, the UK well being secretary Wes Streeting stated he discovered Israel’s resolution to take action “soul-destroying”.

Gaza well being authorities say almost 700 individuals – largely girls and youngsters – have been killed up to now week, with the reported Palestinian dying toll now surpassing 50,000 because the conflict was sparked by Hamas’s cross-border assault on 7 October 2023.

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Insisting that the Labour authorities has used “every diplomatic lever available” to them since assuming energy in July to attempt to deliver an finish to the “bloody war”, Mr Streeting advised a Guardian Live occasion on Tuesday night time that he nonetheless feels “powerless”.

“I find it soul-destroying seeing the breakdown of the ceasefire and the impact we are seeing on innocent human lives,” he was reported as saying.

Mr Streeting continued: “I was looking back at some photos just this morning of a place called Susya in the West Bank, which has been under threat of demolition by the Israelis for many years and now is on the frontline of settler violence.

“This is completely unjustifiable. It is completely intolerable. It doesn’t serve in Israel’s self interest. It cannot be justified as self-defence, and it has got to stop.”

He added: “It’s very frustrating, let me tell you, being a member of the cabinet the United Kingdom and still feeling powerless in the face of this appalling conflict which does nothing for Israelis or Palestinians.”

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Announcing the resumption of Israeli army motion on 18 March, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the lethal strikes reported to have killed greater than 400 Palestinians that day have been “only the beginning”.

Following the breakdown of the ceasefire, Britain’s international secretary David Lammy warned that the choice had resulted in an “appalling loss of life” and probably “the deadliest single day for Palestinians since the war began”.

And Mr Lammy warned that it was “difficult to see” how Israel’s denial of humanitarian help to Gaza civilians “can be compatible with international humanitarian law” – however stopped in need of repeating his earlier remarks that there had been a “breach of international law”.

Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas after the Palestinian militants killed some 1,200 individuals and kidnapped 251 in a cross-border assault on 7 October 2023.