British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem after touring the country’s South to see the communities affected by Hamas attacks last month.
According to the Foreign Office, former Prime Minister David Cameron, who was appointed to the foreign policy brief last week, was scheduled to meet with Palestinian leaders later to discuss the crisis’s next steps.
Cameron’s visit came as war raged on in Gaza, with a proposed truce and release of hostages delayed for at least another day.
“It’s important we talk about this potential humanitarian pause. I think it’s an opportunity to crucially get the hostages out and to get aid into Gaza,” he said.
“I hope everyone who is responsible and behind this agreement can make it happen,” Cameron added.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu stated that while getting the hostages out would be “not without challenges,” Israel was committed to getting everyone out.
Cameron had earlier toured damaged buildings in southern Israel’s Kibbutz Be’eri with his Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen, telling reporters that he had “heard and seen things that obviously I will never forget.”
According to reports, Cameron met with Arab and Islamic counterparts in London on Wednesday to discuss the conflict.
Since the fighting began last month, both British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Cameron’s predecessor James Cleverly have visited Israel.
