David Cameron: Suspending arms sales to Israel not a 'wise path'

The Foreign Secretary did however say that it would be wrong for Israel to launch a full-scale invasion of Rafah “without a plan to protect people”.has already threatened to halt the supply of offensive weapons’s Laura Kuenssberg show, the Foreign Secretary said: “The United States is a massive, bulk, state supplier of weapons to Israel, including 1000lb bombs and all the rest of it.

“I don’t think it would have been a wise path, and I still don’t think it would be a wise path,” he said, adding it would only “strengthen Hamas”. Asked whether it would be wrong for Israel to carry out a Rafah offensive, the Foreign Secretary told Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips: “That’s right, without a plan to protect people.

Israel’s limited operation in Rafah, which it has said is Hamas’s last significant stronghold, has ramped up in recent days. It argues it must invade to dismantle the group and return hostages. The US said no American forces would go ashore, and personnel from another country would drive the delivery trucks carrying aid from the pier.

The shadow paymaster general told Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips: “We do not want this Rafah offensive to go ahead, it would be completely catastrophic.

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