Meeting of the Parliament 25 June 2025
We receive regular briefings from United Nations agencies, the Disasters Emergency Committee and our humanitarian emergency fund panel members. Most recently, I wrote to the UK Government this week to seek information on UK export licences to Israel, in support of our consistent calls for an end to licensed arms exports to Israel.
The severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which is being exacerbated by on-going conflict and a blockade that is restricting aid to Gaza, is devastating. The international community, including the United Kingdom, must act now.
The £1.3 million in humanitarian funding for Gaza and the wider region that the Scottish Government has contributed since the outset of the current conflict has been provided from our own budget. That funding is additional to that which the UK Government has contributed.