Lord Cameron has shown again this afternoon how much the government’s tone on the conflict in Gaza has changed recently. The Foreign Secretary was taking questions in the Lords and heavily laboured the point that Israel should think twice before going into Rafah. He repeated his regular argument that there had been too many Palestinian deaths. Cameron also said he had personally challenged the Israeli government over certain incidents, and urged it once again to abide by humanitarian law. This is a shift from the previous line where ministers said Israel must follow the law, but refused to offer any criticism or indication that they thought the IDF might be sailing close to the wind.
He told peers that Hamas ‘can stop this fight immediately’, but that Israel needed a pause ‘to get the aid in and to get the hostages out’.
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