Select committee: International Development Committee
Recommendation 17
Second Report - Humanitarian situation in Gaza
Published 1 Mar 2024
Paragraph 64
Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
It is difficult to see past the horrors that are ongoing in Gaza today. But the UK Government must plan for the next phase. These plans must include the Palestinian people and will include discussions with bilateral partners and also multilateral organisations. It is in no one’s interest to create a dependent population, and this is something that the Gazans to whom the Committee spoke were very clear on.
From: International Development Committee, Second Report - Humanitarian situation in Gaza (HC 110), paragraph 64, 1 March 2024
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 8 May 2024 (deadline 1 May 2024).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government marks most of the Committee's recommendations as "Agree", marks three as "Partially Agree", and says it is "focussed on practical solutions that save lives".
- On land crossings and aid access, it marks the recommendation "Agree" and says it "continue[s] to press Israel" for further changes, welcoming Israel's undertaking to raise aid flows to 500 trucks a day and wanting Israel to fulfil it "as quickly as possible".
- On a reconstruction conference, it marks the recommendation "Partially Agree": it agrees the international community must consider recovery now, but is "not at this stage ready to commit to the UK hosting an international conference".
- On UNRWA, it marks the recommendation "Agree" but makes no commitment to resume funding, saying it "will set out our position on future funding" after "careful consideration" of the final report, UNRWA's response and the ongoing OIOS investigation.
- On international humanitarian law, it "Partially Agree[s]", stating that grave concerns on humanitarian access are "not sufficient to undermine our judgement that Israel is committed to comply with IHL in general".