Sydney - Middle East Times Int'l: British media reported on Sunday, citing government sources, that the United Kingdom may send its military forces to the Gaza Strip to help deliver humanitarian aid to the people, but at the same time the report noted that the government has not yet taken a final decision on this issue.

The British Navy said yesterday, Saturday, that it had sent the ship (RFA Cardigan Bay) to support the construction of a “temporary pier to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid directly from the sea to Gaza.”

On October 7, 2023, the Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, announced the start of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood,” in which thousands of rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel, and its forces stormed Israeli towns adjacent to the Gaza Strip, causing the death of about 1,200 Israelis, in addition to About 250 others were captured, according to the Russian Sputnik agency.

Israel responded by officially declaring war on the Gaza Strip, beginning with devastating bombing and then ground military operations inside the Strip.

The battles included a seven-day truce, which was reached through Egyptian, Qatari, and American mediation, during which prisoners of women and children were exchanged, and quantities of aid were brought into the Gaza Strip.

Following the end of the truce, fighting renewed between Israel and the Palestinian factions in Gaza, since the morning of Friday, December 1, 2023.

Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed earlier that the Middle East crisis can only be settled on the basis of the “two-state” formula, which was approved by the UN Security Council and stipulates the existence of an Israeli state alongside an independent Palestinian state on the territories occupied since 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.