Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan reiterates the government's view that Israel "has a right to defend itself" but should be "minimizing civilian deaths" and letting aid into Gaza. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 think it's our job as British politicians to speculate on how another government should
00:05 operationalise their response to a terrorist attack. What we have said very clearly is
00:11 Israel has a right to defend itself, it should be minimising civilian deaths and it should
00:17 be allowing access to aid by the border, aid including that we have supplied. It is very
00:22 difficult because Hamas embed themselves within communities, they have tunnels underneath
00:27 hospitals, underneath schools, so it is really tricky to get to them and find them and isolate
00:33 your attack to just Hamas. We appreciate that but we have been very clear, the Prime Minister
00:38 himself, the Foreign Secretary, when they went out into the region have made it very
00:42 clear that they need to be acting in accordance with international humanitarian law, that
00:46 they also need to be minimising civilian deaths. But we understand and we appreciate how difficult
00:52 this is and that they have a right to defend themselves.