UK committee head calls out Israeli official over aid blocking claims

The head of the UK's Foreign Affairs Committee called out an Israeli government spokesperson who claimed the UN rather than Israel was responsible for blocking aid deliveries into Gaza.

Alicia Kerns MP said on X that Israel was failing to meet its legal obligation to help aid get into the besieged enclave, citing the closure of the Kerem Shalom crossing.

"I’ve just returned from the aid staging location in Egypt, thousands of trucks are sat waiting to deliver aid," she wrote.

In response, Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy claimed that the crossing was "currently closed on Saturdays at the request of the UN because there is so much undistributed aid piling up on the other side."

Kearns asked for evidence from Levy, pointing out that his claim was the "opposite" of what she had been told by the UK government, Egyptian government and the UN. 

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