Devastating it took aid worker deaths for Israel to change approach, says senior Tory

Alicia Kearns: ‘The priority for now is very much making sure for aid to be getting in and that famine must be stopped.’ Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images

It is devastating that it took six months and the killing of six western aid workers for a tipping point to be reached for Israel to change course over the supply of international humanitarian aid, the chair of the UK foreign affairs committee has said.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Alicia Kearns said the government must suspend arms sales to Israel and claimed ministers were no longer saying that Israel was complying with international humanitarian law, merely that it had the capacity to do so.