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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Thursday the 20th of March.

Coming up, as the fragile ceasefire shatters in Gaza, the Foreign Secretary pleads with Israel and Hamas to return to peace talks.

This conflict cannot be resolved by military means.

We want Israel and Hamas to re-engage with negotiations.

Also, the scourge of knife violence was brought home to one MP just a few weeks ago.

My nephew, a kind-hearted, wonderful young man, was brutally attacked in an act of senseless knife violence.

And why they're going slowly and carefully with the nuclear clean-up at Sellefield.

This is the most hazardous material in the world.

We have 140 tonnes of plutonium at Sellefield. But first, as the Middle East ceasefire

crumbles, the Foreign Secretary has called Israel's restriction of aid going into Gaza unacceptable.

But he ruled back from his words on Monday when he said that Israel was breaching international law.

David Lemmy said that for weak supplies of basic goods and

electricity to Gaza had been blocked, doubling food prices and leaving half a million people

cut off from clean drinking water. This is appalling and unacceptable. Ultimately of course these are

matters for the courts, not governments, to determine.

But it's difficult to see how denying humanitarian assistance to a civilian population can be

compatible with international humanitarian law. Though it's important to say I could have been

a little clearer in the House on Monday.

And so he repeated the government's official position that it believed Israel was at risk of breaching international law.

The ceasefire which had been in place since January ended on Tuesday when Israel resumed airstrikes on Gaza.

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