Lord Cameron: It's time for immediate pause to fighting
Lord David Cameron says an ‘immediate pause to fighting’ in Gaza is needed - which could develop into a permanent ceasefire. The British foreign secretary, who is currently in Qatar, also says he has spoken to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the need for a two-state solution to bring peace to the region. Report by Covellm. 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 Look, it's time for an immediate pause in the fighting, because we've got to not only
00:05 get the aid in, but crucially we've got to get those hostages out. And what I think we
00:10 can do now is plan for how you turn that pause into a permanent, sustainable ceasefire without
00:17 a return to fighting. That's what I was pushing on him and that's what I'll be talking about
00:21 here today. Now for that to happen, a lot of things would have to happen. You'd have
00:25 to see the Hamas leadership leave Gaza. You'd have to see the instruments of terrorism being
00:32 dismantled in Gaza. But you've also got to see a political perspective so that Palestinian
00:38 people can see that there is a route to having a Palestinian state, to having a new future.
00:44 So it's all those things together that need to form part of a proper plan.
00:48 [Train noises]
01:06 So what do you work on?
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