LONDON, March 19, 2025 (WAFA) – UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Wednesday voiced his deep concern over Israel’s renewed bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Starmer told the House of Commons: “I am deeply concerned about the resumption of Israeli military action in Gaza,” as reported by the Association Press (AP).

“The images of parents carrying their children, young children to hospitals that have emerged over the last few days are truly shocking alongside the sheer number of people who have been killed,” he added.

He pledged that the UK would do all it could to ensure the resumption of the ceasefire to get aid that’s desperately needed into the Strip.

Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians, including over 100 children.

The death toll reached 436 with 678 others wounded, according to medical sources. Emergency teams are attempting to recover victims still trapped beneath the rubble.

The aggression was resumed amidst concerns over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip given the ongoing siege and ban on the entry of medical and humanitarian aid.

Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing over 49,547 Palestinians, mostly women and children and injuring 112,719 others.

Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

K.F.