LONDON, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told the House of Commons on Tuesday that the Israeli authorities' response to settler violence is "still completely insufficient -- practically and legally."
Addressing lawmakers on Tuesday afternoon, Cooper stressed that curbing settlement expansion and settler violence is essential to safeguarding the two-state solution, adding that "Palestine must be run by Palestinians."
She said a major scale-up of humanitarian assistance is urgently needed "because aid into Gaza is still a trickle rather than a flood."
Cooper added that she had visited warehouses holding British aid for Gaza two weeks ago, including a UN World Food Program facility containing enough wheat to feed 700,000 people for a month. "Yet it still sits there because the Jordanian route into Gaza is still closed," she said.
She also urged that "all of the land crossings" be opened for longer, including the Rafah border with Egypt, and called for "urgent work" to restore basic public services and provide shelter in Gaza as winter approaches. ■