The SNP Deputy Westminster leader called on Sunak to back a humanitarian ceasefire during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.
Mhairi Black has pushed Rishi Sunak into backing a pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow British nationals to escape Gaza and let aid in.
Black, who was stepping in for Westminster leader Stephen Flynn, said Britain has a “human responsibility” to all civilians in Gaza but particularly so to UK nationals who she said are in hospitals in Gaza with no food, no water, no medicine and “no way out”. She asked: “How much worse does the situation have to get before he will join us in calls for a humanitarian ceasefire?”
“We recognise for all of that to happen there has to be a safer environment which of course necessitates specific pauses as distinct from a ceasefire.”
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