Lammy and Séjourné are conducting the join mission after leaders from the UK, France, and Germany called for ‘de-escalation and regional stability.’
The time for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war is now, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said on visit to Israel with his French counterpart Stéphane Séjourné.
Lammy and Séjourné met with Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz and the country’s minister of strategic affairs, Ron Dermer, on Friday, as well as visiting the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The British foreign secretary said during a press conference, “This is a war and a crisis that has taken so many lives across the region that, of course, begun with the most horrific of events on October the seventh.”
“But as we head now to 315 days of war, the time for a deal, for those hostages to be returned, for aid to get in in the quantities that are necessary in Gaza, and for the fighting to stop, is now,” Lammy continued.
“That is the message that we have jointly underlined to ministers today, both in Israel and, of course, in the occupied territories,” the minister added.
Negotiations between the United States, Qatar, and Egypt and an Israeli delegation in Qatar are also