After Biden, Rishi Sunak takes off for wartime Israel visit first, and then wider region
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took off for Israel to holdtalks with his Israeli counterpart. After concluding his Israel visit, Sunakis scheduled to travel to other countries in the region for further discussions with other leaders in West Asia, Downing Street announced.
Downing Street, however, did not specify which other leaders Sunak will engage with. Instead, it mentioned that the UK Prime Minister will travel "to a number of other regional capitals", whose details have not been released due to security reasons.
In Israel, Sunak will meet with PM Benjamin Netanyahu as well as thecountry’s President, Isaac Herzog, on Thursday, according to the details of Sunak's schedule shared by 10, Downing Street.
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Sunak is set to arrive in Israel right after US President Joe Biden concluded his wartime visit to the country at war with Hamas since October 7. Biden was due to visit the Jordanian capital Ammanfor a four-way summit with the leaders of Jordan, Egypt and Palestine Authority. But Jordan called off the summit after a hospital in the Gaza Strip was hit by a strike and killed over 500 people, in the deadliest civilian casualty event in the region since the beginning of the war.
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Sunak faces the task of pacifying Arabian leaders whose anti-Israel passions are running high, especially since the Gaza hospital's mass casualty event.
Meanwhile, Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu said that Israel would allow Egypt to deliver limited quantities of humanitarian aid to Gaza, a move Cairo later approved from the Rafah border crossing into Gaza.
Downing Street said that Rishi Sunak would push for humanitarian access to Gazato happen "as soon as possible", an event whose administerial approval has already been given by both Israel and Egypt following US President Joe Biden's visit.
It is noteworthy that the push for humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip was first announced by US State Secretary Antony Blinken on October 17 following days of engagements with leaders in West Asia.
"Every civilian death is a tragedy. And too many lives have been lost following Hamas’horrific act of terror," Sunak said in his remarks before taking off from London.
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