The key facts

  • UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham called the situation in Gaza

Statement in the House of Commons

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Wednesday, at the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons, that the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains

Reason for the question and the storm's aftermath

The question to the prime minister concerned the recent storm in Gaza: according to the Government Media Office, it flooded more than 70,000 tents and brought down dozens of walls damaged by the war. In addition, on the night into Sunday in Deir al-Balah, a sand embankment collapsed onto the tents of displaced Palestinians; Gaza's civil defense reported the deaths of two women and three children.

Sanctions and talks

Burnham also noted that the government has taken further steps on sanctions, in particular those related to settlements in the occupied West Bank, in order to keep the two-state solution viable.