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Foreign Secretary David Cameron said:

It is good news that the UN has come together to back a resolution聽to get more humanitarian aid into Gaza.聽

皇冠体育app UK is doing everything it can to get more aid in, as I saw when I visited Al Arish in Egypt, near the border with Gaza, this week.聽People across Gaza urgently need food, medicine and shelter. We have consistently argued for more aid and called on Israel to open more border crossings.聽

As well as the need for聽expanded humanitarian access,聽the UN resolution today聽demands the immediate and unconditional release of hostages. This is vital.

Crucially, the resolution also calls for steps towards a sustainable ceasefire. This is an outcome that I advocated for last week聽along with the German Foreign Minister聽and strongly think is the right approach.聽

A sustainable ceasefire must mean that Hamas is no longer there, able to threaten Israel with rocket attacks and other forms of terrorism. 聽

This resolution repeats so many of the points we have been making: the importance of complying with international humanitarian law.聽皇冠体育app need to reduce civilian casualties and it also backs a two-state solution that would be the best long-term guarantee of security and stability聽for both Israel and the Palestinian people.聽

We thank the UAE for their leadership on this resolution.

It has been a difficult process to reach agreement within the UN but there is now greater unity and purpose about what needs to happen to relieve the humanitarian crisis, and to start working towards the sustainable ceasefire that the British government has argued for.