Starmer: ‘Humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza must end now’
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called for immediate action to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in a newspaper column outlining efforts by the UK to help.
In a column in the Daily Mirror, the UK leader wrote that the “images of starvation and desperation in Gaza are utterly horrifying”.
“The denial of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people – to children and babies – is completely unjustifiable,” he wrote. “It is a humanitarian catastrophe. And it must end now.”
He said the humanitarian support allocated by the British government to help Palestinians had not been getting into Gaza so the government was scaling up its work.
“News that Israel will allow countries to airdrop aid into Gaza has come far too late – but we will do everything we can to get aid in via this route,” he wrote, adding that British officials were working urgently with Jordanian authorities to get aid onto planes and into Gaza.
He said his government was also speeding up efforts to evacuate children in need of critical medical support from Gaza to bring them to the UK for treatment.
Nothing but talk. Air drops will only make matters worse, they're the very definition of drip feeding next to causing more chaos.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478831
Three C-130 aircraft can drop 37,000 meals for 2 million starving people... The GHF 'claims' to be delivering 1 million 'meals' a day and look where we are now:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/22/food-aid-gaza-deaths-visual-story-ghf-israel
It didn't provide anything meaningful last year when starvation and malnutrition were much less of an issue, it's nothing but the same stalling technique again. History repeating on a 1 year cycle...
UK has only taken in two, that is 2, medically evacuated children so far
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/19/uk-government-faces-legal-action-over-not-evacuating-critically-ill-children-from-gaza
And UK weapon shipments are still getting through. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz09k48z9v0o
The RAF is also still helping Israel with reconnaissance flights
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25333493.uk-spy-plane-flew-towards-gaza-hours-labour-condemned-horrors/
Starmer and Lammy belong in The Hague before the ICC.
Starmer is doing everything to stall while children are starved to death.
Starving and exhausted doctors call for international intervention in Gaza
Doctors in Gaza are malnourished themselves as they try to help people. We have spoken with doctors who said they are always feeling dizzy, they experience headaches or even fall unconscious.
Starved Palestinian patients and wounded are coming into hospitals every single day under these circumstances. There are no medical supplies, no nutritional resources that those doctors can give them.
Many are forced to leave the hospitals because they can’t provide them any help. We have seen fathers and parents crying at the entrance of the hospitals sometimes because the doctors are helpless.
That’s why Palestinian doctors have been calling on other countries and the international community to let supplies and medicine enter the Gaza Strip. Those who are severely wounded, or suffering from chronic diseases or malnourished cannot be helped at the moment.
Five people killed, including two children, in Israeli drone strike in al-Mawasi
Two children are among five Palestinians killed by an Israeli drone strike in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, sources at Nasser Hospital tell Al Jazeera.
The attack struck a camp housing displaced people in al-Mawasi, which is west of Khan Younis.
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 39 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 15 aid seekers.
