UK urges Israel to ‘step back,’ calls Gaza famine ‘man-made’ – Middle East Monitor

Expressing outrage at Israel’s refusal to allow sufficient aid into Gaza, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy described the crisis as a deliberate famine, saying: “It’s a man-made famine in the 21st century,” Anadolu reports.

Speaking in the House of Commons on Monday, Lammy warned that Israel’s reputation due to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is “diminishing in the eyes of young people across the globe who look at this with horror.”

Lammy urged the…