"Need Is Urgent": UK, Germany Call For "Sustainable Ceasefire" In Gaza

The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday night overwhelmingly demanded a ceasefire in Gaza, but the UK abstained.

UK foreign minister David Cameron and German counterpart Annalena Baerbock stressed that the "need is urgent" for a "sustainable ceasefire" in Gaza in a joint article for Britain's Sunday Times.

The two ministers wrote in a joint Sunday Times article that "too many civilians have been killed" in the conflict, and raised the pressure on Israel to bring its operation against Hamas to a swift, but "sustainable", end.

"We must do all we can to pave the way to a sustainable ceasefire, leading to a sustainable peace. The sooner it comes, the better -- the need is urgent," they wrote.