LONDON: British MP Naz Shah has said that she will be voting for immediate ceasefire in Gaza UK MP Naz Shah has said she will vote for a ceasefire in Gaza, defying the Labour whip. Members of the UK House of Commons will vote on amendment brought by the Scottish National Party on an immediate ceasefire and halt to fighting in Gaza.
The motion was moved last week by the Scottish National Party, which said it intends to seek a vote calling on the UK government to “join the international community in urgently pressing all parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire”.
Turkiye’s health minister has said over two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, many of them children, who have crossed from Gaza into Egypt will be brought for treatment to Turkiye.
Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said 26 Palestinian cancer patients have entered Egypt through the Rafah border crossing today.
“We plan to take these 26 patients to Turkey today,” he said in televised remarks from the El Arish airport in Egypt. He said the group would be flown to Turkey “with 13 companions”, without specifying whether these were doctors or family members.
The UN humanitarian chief has said he and Iran’s top diplomat had discussed fears of what an expansion of the Gaza war might entail and had agreed it “would not be good”, AFP reports.
At a Geneva press briefing, United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths voiced deep concern that Israel’s military offensive against Hamas could expand beyond Gaza, “into the north”.
“If there is to be a war in the north with Hezbollah and Israel, then I fear the worst,” Griffiths said.
“We can easily imagine the worst because it will be a war that makes even Gaza with its awful horrors of daily struggle look like just a beginning.”
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