Rishi Sunak has called for a “sustainable ceasefire” in the Israel-Hamas war as he said “too many civilian lives have been lost”.
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The Prime Minister said during a visit to Scotland on Monday said that “nobody wants to see this conflict go on a day longer than it has to”.
The Government’s position on the conflict appeared to shift at the weekend as Lord Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, said in an article for The Sunday Times that he supported a ceasefire “but only if it is sustainable”.
That stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire but represented a step forward from the past position of calling for humanitarian pauses in the fighting.
Mr Sunak said this morning: “Israel obviously has a right to defend itself against what was an appalling terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas, but it must do that in accordance with humanitarian law.
“It’s clear that too many civilian lives have been lost and nobody wants to see this conflict go on a day longer than it has to.
“And that’s why we’ve been consistent – and I made this point in Parliament last week – in calling for a sustainable ceasefire, whereby hostages are released, rockets stop being fired into Israel by Hamas and we continue to get more aid in.”
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