UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today landed in Tel Aviv and said that he "grieves" with Israel and stands with them against the "evil that is terrorism".
"I am in Israel, a nation in grief. I grieve with you and stand with you against the evil that is terrorism. Today, and always," he said in a tweet.
Earlier, US President Joe Biden said that Egypt has agreed to open the Rafah crossing into Gaza to allow a first batch of around 20 humanitarian aid trucks through. The shipment, however, would likely not cross until Friday as the road at the crossing needed repairs.
Israel has bombarded Gaza, where authorities say nearly 3,500 people have been killed, after the Hamas group attacked Israeli cities on October 7 and killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and took nearly 200 hostages.
