The United Kingdom blames Hamas for the IDF’s military operation against Gaza and supports Israel’s right to defend itself, its ambassador Matthew Gould told The Jerusalem Post | JPost on Tuesday during a visit to the South to see the situation first-hand. “This was a conflict triggered by Hamas raining down on Israel hundreds and hundreds of rockets fired indiscriminately at Israeli towns and cities. Israel has a right and indeed an obligation to defend its citizens,” Gould said. British Prime Minister David Cameron delivered the same message to his parliament on Monday, Gould said, adding that Cameron said that Israel’s critics should ask themselves what they would do if their country was attacked. Gould said he understood that just a short distance from where he sat in Sderot, innocent Palestinians in Gaza had been killed in the fighting. “We are very concerned, as is the whole world, about the number of casualties in the conflict, and like everyone else we hope it will be brought to and end soon and a cease-fire will be quickly agreed [on],” Gould said.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:29:25 +0000
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