Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office written question – answered at on 31 October 2024.
Abtisam Mohamed
Labour, Sheffield Central
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure specialist doctors can enter Gaza.
Hamish Falconer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
UK funding is supporting humanitarian partners to reach those in desperate need of medical assistance: through our support to UK-Med we are helping to run field hospitals in Gaza; on 16 October I announced £1 million of UK assistance to support medically evacuated Palestinians in Egypt; and on 17 October we agreed to match up to £10 million of public donations to the Disasters Emergency Committee's Middle East humanitarian appeal.
The UK Government is closely monitoring the impact of the conflict in Gaza on access to medical facilities and healthcare. As the Foreign Secretary said on 16 October, Israel can and must do more to ensure that humanitarian assistance can move freely and safely within Gaza - this includes medical workers.
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