This came in an extensive interview with Minister Lammy, published by the British newspaper The Guardian on Saturday, which focused on the most thorny issues facing the minister's work, one year after he assumed the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in July 2024.
Lamy described the shooting of civilians waiting for aid in Gaza as "disgusting and abhorrent," calling on Israel to "hold accountable" those involved in targeting aid-seekers.
He added that the situation in the Gaza Strip is "hopeless for the people on the ground (Palestinians), and for the hostages (Israelis) in Gaza."
Lamy explained that "the world longs for a ceasefire and an end to the suffering" in the Palestinian Strip.
The Guardian reported that the British Foreign Secretary expressed his desire to go to Gaza "as soon as possible."
On Friday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the death toll among those waiting for aid had risen to "1,383 martyrs and more than 9,218 injured" since May 27.
The ministry also announced that the number of victims of Israel's starvation policy since October 7, 2023, has risen to 162, including 92 children.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has repeatedly stated in previous statements that approximately 6,000 trucks carrying humanitarian aid are stranded at the Gaza Strip's land crossings, awaiting a "green light" to enter the besieged territory.
According to World Food Programme estimates, a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza are facing famine-like conditions, with 100,000 children and women suffering from severe malnutrition.
Since the genocide began on October 7, 2023, Israel has been simultaneously committing a starvation crime against the Palestinians of Gaza. On March 2, it tightened its measures by closing all crossings to humanitarian, relief, and medical aid, causing famine to spread and reaching "catastrophic" levels.
Although Israel has "allowed" dozens of humanitarian trucks into Gaza since last Sunday, a country that needs more than 600 trucks per day as a minimum to save lives, it has facilitated and provided protection for the theft, according to a statement from the government media office in Gaza.
The US-backed genocide left approximately 208,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and a famine that claimed the lives of many.
