Huckabee attacks Miliband after his statements about Gaza

The Telegraph newspaper explained that Huckabee's attack came after the British Foreign Office published a video clip in which Miliband said that what is happening in Gaza is "horrific," based on testimonies he received from sources on the ground in Gaza regarding the prevention of the entry of medicines and the death of children while waiting for treatment.

Miliband said that he "just left a meeting that discussed the situation in Gaza with people on the ground or who visited it, explaining that what he heard about the ban on medicines and the death of children awaiting treatment confirms the need for the British government to move more decisively to alleviate the suffering of the residents of the Strip."

Miliband's statements sparked Israeli reactions, and Huckabee wrote on the "X" platform: "The British have lost their minds. Their government's hatred of Jews knows no borders and does not acknowledge the facts."

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Miliband by saying that “if he had been interested in facts instead of stories, he would have known that there are no restrictions on the entry of medicines into the Gaza Strip, and that any medicines are not prevented from entering.”

The World Health Organization and a number of United Nations agencies and humanitarian organizations have previously accused Israel of obstructing the entry of aid and medicine into Gaza. Last June, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher said that the amount of aid entering the Strip is not enough to meet the needs of the population.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that conditions in the Strip remain “extremely difficult,” and that air strikes continue, causing casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure.

The office added that most of Gaza's population of about 2.1 million people are still displaced, and that humanitarian needs are still enormous, at a time when humanitarian organizations face continued restrictions on entering some materials and accessing certain areas for assistance and work in them.

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced that his government would unveil a package of measures in response to the Israeli government's policies. Last week, he pledged to conduct a "reset" of Britain's policy towards Israel, and said that he would work to prevent British companies from contributing to the construction of illegal settlements in the West Bank.