Israel’s attacks on Gaza are “unjustifiable” and “intolerable”, Wes Streeting has said, as the health secretary expressed discomfort at images of bombs shattering the region that has been under threat by the Israelis “for many years”.
Streeting said he found Israel’s decision to break the Gaza ceasefire “soul-destroying”, and insisted the attacks do not “serve in Israel’s self-interest and cannot be justified as self-defence”, adding: “It has got to stop.”
On Monday, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 65 people in Gaza, including women, children and two journalists, nearly a week after it broke its ceasefire deal with Hamas.
The scale of attacks prompted the UN to announce it will “reduce its footprint” in Gaza, after an attack at one of its compounds saw one of their staff killed and five others injured.
Streeting insisted Labour had used “every diplomatic lever available” to them since they have been in power to try to bring an end to the “bloody war”, but as a UK cabinet minister he still feels “powerless”.
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