Back to today’s story surrounding the marine aid corridor to Gaza, and Downing Street has been providing some detail as to the UK’s involvement.
A Number 10 spokeswoman said: “We will and have been supporting it. We have supported the US in planning for the pontoon, including by sending marine surveyors and will now be working with partners to operationalise our maritime aid corridor from Cyprus.”
She added: “We continue to be very clear that we need to go much further, not enough aid is getting into Gaza, and we continue to push them to take further action, to do more to protect civilians, to abide by international humanitarian law and allow more aid in and to protect foreign aid workers and to facilitate humanitarian operations.
“We continue to impress the importance of this in our conversations and as you’ve seen today we are also taking action with our allies to get more vital aid in.”
UK involvement in the maritime corridor is not expected to involve a deployment of British personnel to Gaza.
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