Shapps to travel to the Middle East as UK considers ways to increase help

The Defence Secretary of the UK, Grant Shapps, will go to the Middle East soon to find new ways to help Gaza with more humanitarian aid.

Shapps is having a hard time getting enough help through the Rafah crossing, so he is thinking about using two RFA ships – Argus and Lyme Bay – to provide aid from the sea.

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He said a Royal Air Force plane will fly over Gaza and Israel to look for people held by Hamas. The plane will not have weapons.

British people are hostages, but we do not know how many yet.

Shapps promises to do everything he can to bring British hostages back home.