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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

Global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza

Flares light up the night sky in central Gaza
Illumination flares launched by the Israeli army are seen over Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP

Israel is facing intensifying international condemnation for its killing of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and its attacks on humanitarian efforts, as the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said the “last lifelines keeping people alive [in the strip] are collapsing”.

An angry chorus of senior figures, among them the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, and a senior Catholic cleric, expressed on Tuesday a growing sense of global horror over Israel’s actions.

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