The United Kingdom, Germany and France call for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and “the unconditional release of all hostages”, after the three countries have filed an emergency call to discuss the current war and the humanitarian crisis.
“The humanitarian disaster that we are witnessing in Gaza must end now. The most fundamental needs of the civilian population, including access to water and food, must be satisfied without further delay. Topping humanitarian assistance essential to the civilian population is unacceptable,” the countries said in a joint statement.
Countries have called for withdrawal from Israeli The forces of Gaza and the abolition of Hamas leaders as “key stages” towards a solution to two states.
“We firmly oppose all efforts to impose Israeli sovereignty in the occupied Palestinian territories. The threats of annexation, the colonies and acts of violence of the colonists against the Palestinians undermine the prospects for solution to two negotiated states. provisions and ensure the delivery of large -scale humanitarian aid, ”said countries.
A displaced Palestinian child is next to a lens soup jar he received at a food distribution point in Gaza City in the Northern Gaza Strip on July 25, 2025.
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Get help from Gaza
In the midst of calls for greater assistance, Israel said that he would coordinate ADROPS in the Gaza aid in foreign countries in the coming days, an Israeli security official confirmed to ABC News on Friday before the disastrous emergency call on disastrous conditions in the enclave.
Until now, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates will participate in aid cuts.
Help drops have taken place several times in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, and repeatedly leads to death and woundsAccording to the Gaza Ministry of Health managed by Hamas.
UNRWA General Commissioner Philippe Lazzarini warned that the Airdrops are the “most expensive and ineffective means of providing help,” describing them as “distraction to inaction”.
The International Committee of the Red Cross called for an “urgent collective action by states to end the suffering in an animated manner in Gaza”, saying that people are “tirelessly killed in hostilities and while trying to make food”, in a statement.
“There is no excuse for what is happening in Gaza. The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity has long exceeded all acceptable norms-both legal and moral. Each minute constantly risk of civil life. The level of suffering inflicted on civilians because of the war has been indicated and deceased and the extreme deprivation of the essential for survival is an abhorrent. ICRC.
“This tragedy must end now – immediately and decisively. Each political hesitation, each attempt to justify horrors committed under international surveillance will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war. States must maintain their obligation under the Geneva conventions to respect and ensure respect for international law in humanity (IHL), including by guaranteing that the weapons they transfer Do not help violate the violations of the IHL “. .
Smoke and fire rise in the sky after an Israeli air strike in the Northern Gaza Strip, seen from the south of Israel, Thursday, July 24, 2025.
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France says that it will recognize “the state of Palestine”
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday: “It is essential to build the state of Palestine, to ensure its viability and to allow it, by accepting its demilitarization and by fully recognizing Israel, to contribute to the security of all in the Middle East.”
“There must be an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and massive humanitarian aid to the inhabitants of Gaza. It is also necessary to ensure the demilitarization of Hamas, to secure and rebuild Gaza,” continued Macron.
Macron said he would make the official announcement to the UN in September. Starmer reported the same British support.
“We are clear that the state is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people. A ceasefire will put us on the path of the recognition of a Palestinian state and a solution to two states which guarantees peace and security for the Palestinians and the Israelis,” said Starmer.
Israel condemned France’s decision, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying: “Such a decision rewards terror and risks creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza has become. A Palestinian state under these conditions would be a launch ramp to destroy Israel – not next to peace.
A woman and a child react after having identified the body of a family member at the Nasser hospital, among the Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes of the Al-Mawasi refugee camp and the oriental districts of Khan Yunis in the southern gang of Gaza on July 24, 2025.
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The US State Department rejected the idea that Israel – and by extension of the United States – a weapon with the help of the Palestinians in Gaza in the United Nations growing criticism and humanitarian groups.
“This humanitarian conflict is at the foot of Hamas, which could end this conflict today by releasing the hostages and putting their arms,” said the deputy spokesman for the State Department, Tommy Pigott on Thursday.
Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said “there is no famine” in Gaza, on an online briefing on Wednesday.
Menting blamed Hamas and called the food crisis in Gaza “an artificial shortage designed by Hamas”.
Pigott has praised the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation supported by the United States – although its distribution sites are in limited areas of Gaza and that the aid groups say that the supplies provided by the GHF are not sufficient to meet the overwhelming need.
The UN and other aid organizations have refused to collaborate with the group, invoking concerns concerning its transparency and its political impartiality.
“It’s more than 1000 since May 27 when the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began to distribute food and people have been slaughtered both while you are trying to collect food in these distribution centers where the Gaza Humaninitarian Foundation distributes, but also when there have been convoys and other convoys of help in Gaza and people tried to jump on these trucks and were shot, “Ajith Sunghay, Sunghay, Sunghay, Sunghay, Sunghay, Sunghay, Sunghay, from the United Nations High Commissioner Office to Human Rightssaid.
“In the end, what we saw is to deliver nearly 90 million meals to Gaza during the war zone, [and] The ability to deliver this aid in a way it is not pillaged by Hamas, “he said.
“We want to see the end of the devastation that took place in Gaza. This is why we have seen this commitment to help people who need it in a way it is not armed by Hamas. This commitment remains. It is a commitment from the president [Donald] Trump and secretary [of State Marco] Rubio. This is why we supported the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, “said Pigott.
Pigott said that the administration continued to call on “other entities to intensify this mechanism in order to provide help to the inhabitants of Gaza without being pillage by Hamas”.
More than 1,000 people were also killed by Israeli gunshots Distribution sites close to assistance in Gaza, according to the United Nations. Most of them are operated by GHF, which opened its help distribution sites on May 27.
Israeli defense forces said in a statement Earlier this monthHis troops fired near the crowd “to remove an immediate threat that has placed them”, although it is not specific.
Israeli officials have long accused Hamas of having seized humanitarian property and selling them to finance militant activity. Hamas denies these complaints.