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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

The Foreign Secretary David Lamy was heckled on Thursday the 20th of March

when he told MPs that it was difficult to see how Israel's decision to restrict the delivery of aid into Gaza could be compatible with international law.

He told the Commons he could have been a little clearer earlier this week

when he said there had been a breach of international law.

David Lammy arrived early for his second common statement of the week

and spent several minutes working on his

speech as he sat on the government front bench. On Monday, during exchanges about a G7 summit,

the Foreign Secretary had said Israel was in breach of international law for withholding aid

from Gaza. That would have been a change in the government's position, which is that Israel is at clear

risk of breaching international law. Mr. Lammy, who was later corrected by Downing Street, stuck

to the script yesterday. 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,

our position remains that Israel's actions in Gaza are a clear risk of breaching

of breaching international humanitarian law.

The Foreign Secretary had returned to the Commons to make a statement about the breakdown of the ceasefire

between Israel and Hamas. He said Israel's resumption of hostilities had led to what he

called an appalling loss of life in Gaza. David Lammy said Hamas, which is prescribed as a terrorist

organisation by the UK government, could have no role in Gaza's future. But he argued that a collapsed

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