Al Arabiya presenter: Israel condemnation took too long

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00:00There we are. We heard the Foreign Secretary David Lammy in the comments today discussing this exact issue.

00:06Do you think the West has now drawn a red line when it comes to Israel?

00:11Well, it appears so, at least when it comes to this statement, this shared statement by the UK, Canada and France.

00:19But quite honestly, I'm surprised that it took them this long to have such a statement,

00:24to have such a condemnation after one year and seven months of this war

00:29and more than 60,000 people dead.

00:32Now, there are a few details, actually interesting details, that caught my eye in that statement.

00:37One is being the language is different this time.

00:41There's definitely a shift in tone.

00:44But also that the statement talks about the recent, the new Israeli military escalation in Gaza.

00:52In all honesty, I don't see anything different that Israel is doing now.

00:57It hasn't been doing for the past one year and seven months.

01:00Whether it be bombing, the bombings, the military operations, or even blocking all aid from coming in.

01:07Throughout this war in the past year and seven months, they have restricted aid.

01:13They have blocked it totally from the north.

01:15And if you remember, just before the ceasefire in January, the entire north was basically not getting any aid whatsoever.

01:24And there were warnings of a real famine there.