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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sammy Gecsoyler

Starmer says plan to airdrop Gaza aid and evacuate ill children will go ahead

Distraught women and children hold out empty bowls.
The three leaders called on Israel to ‘lift all restrictions on aid and urgently provide those suffering in Gaza with the food they so desperately need’. Photograph: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters

Keir Starmer has confirmed the government will be “taking forward” plans to airdrop aid into Gaza and evacuate children who need medical assistance in an effort to relieve what Downing Street called an appalling situation.

Speaking to the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Saturday morning, the prime minister outlined the UK’s intentions to work with Jordan to carry out the plans.

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