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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Toby Helm Political editor and Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

David Cameron warns of Gaza famine as UK sends Royal Navy ship to boost aid effort

People unloading boxes from the back of a lorry
Medical aid is unloaded from a lorry in the northern Gaza Strip last week. Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters

The Royal Navy was ordered into action on Saturday to help supply desperately needed aid to Gaza, as the foreign secretary, David Cameron, warned that the Palestinian people trapped there were on the brink of famine.

With the UK and US governments under intense pressure to halt arms sales to Israel, Downing Street said on Saturday that ministers would instead boost support for a planned new maritime corridor from Cyprus to Gaza, to channel “life-saving aid” by sea to a population in urgent need of basic food supplies.

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