In the UK, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps says he will be visiting the Middle East later this week to explore other potential routes to provide Gaza with more humanitarian aid, APA reports citing BBC.
Shapps says getting enough aid through the Rafah crossing is proving challenging and he's actively looking at whether two Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) ships - Argus and Lyme Bay - could perhaps provide humanitarian aid from the sea.
No further details were given.
He does, however, confirm that a Royal Air Force (RAF) unarmed surveillance aircraft - a Shadow R1 - will be conducting surveillance flights over Gaza, Israel and the eastern Mediterranean - specifically to look for hostages held by Hamas.
British nationals are known to be among the hostages, but so far a number has not been given.
Shapps says he'll “move heaven and earth” to bring British hostages home.
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