Middle East

(asked on 14th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policy of the report by the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs on the number of casualties among young people and other civilians during the recent Israeli military operation in Gaza.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 17th July 2014

I refer the hon. Member to the Statement on Gaza made by the then Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague) to the House on 14 July 2014, Official Report, columns 581-3.

This statement both underlines the terrible human cost of the conflict and outlines our policy objectives to end this cycle of violence and devastation once and for all. Our objectives are to secure a ceasefire, to alleviate humanitarian suffering and to keep alive the prospects for peace negotiations.

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