This handout photograph taken and released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Jan. 26, 2024, shows Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (R) posing with his counterpart UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron (L) during their meeting in Istanbul. (Credit: Handout/Turkish Foreign Ministry/AFP)
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said after a Middle East tour on Friday that progress has been made towards a deal to halt fighting in Gaza, bring in more aid and release Israeli hostages held there.
In an interview in Istanbul, his last stop on the tour, Cameron said that Israel is considering a British proposal to open its Ashdod port to aid shipments to Gaza but that it would "take a lot of pushing" to reach an agreement.
"Achieving a pause where we stop the fighting and start looking at how to get aid in and hostages out, I think there is a prospect of that," Cameron told Reuters and a Turkish broadcaster.
"That's what I've been in the region talking about. And I think we are making some progress."
David Cameron said after a Middle East tour on Friday that
progress has been made towards a deal to halt fighting in Gaza,
bring in more aid and release Israeli hostages held there.
In an interview in Istanbul, his last stop on the tour,
Cameron said that Israel is considering a British proposal to
open its Ashdod port to aid shipments...