UK WILL PLAY A ROLE IN NEW GAZA.

Sir Keir Starmer has suggested that the UK will play a role in dropping aid into Gaza by air after more than a third of MPs signed a letter calling on the government to recognise a Palestinian state.

On Friday, Israel said it would allow foreign countries to deliver air supplies in the coming days amid mounting international concern about humanitarian conditions in the territory.

In an earlier statement after an emergency phone call with President Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Sir Keir said recognising Palestinian statehood would have to be part of a “wider plan which ultimately results in a two-state solution”.

On Friday evening, Sir Keir said the government would “pull every lever” to deliver food and life-saving support to Palestinians. “This humanitarian catastrophe must end,” he added in a post on X.

“Malnutrition is surging with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment,” the World Food Programme said in a statement.

Since the outbreak of war in Gaza, two children with serious health conditions have been brought to the UK for private medical treatment.The young girls were granted temporary visas, arriving in the UK in May from Egypt with the assistance of Project Pure Hope, a humanitarian healthcare initiative.