British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday "agreed on the importance of urgently scaling up the delivery of life-saving humanitarian aid" in Gaza.
Meeting during an AI safety summit in Milton Keynes, near London, Sunak and Guterres also "agreed on the need to reinvigorate international efforts to reach a lasting resolution to the conflict and progress work towards a two-state solution," in the Palestine-Israel conflict.
A UK government statement said the leaders "discussed the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza and agreed on the importance of urgently scaling up the delivery of life-saving humanitarian aid."
Sunak "set out the work the UK is doing to support, including doubling aid funding for the United Nations and others' work in Gaza and pre-positioning emergency supplies and equipment in Egypt."
Sunak and Guterres also spoke about the need for close global collaboration on AI safety and the latest situation in the Ukraine-Russia war, the statement added.
The Gaza Strip has been crippled by a years-long embargo by the Israeli government, plus an even harsher cutoff of fuel, water, and power supplies since the start of the current conflict on Oct. 7
In recent days Israel has let some aid into the enclave, but only a fraction of what the population of over 2.2 million need to survive.
