Scenes of children killed while waiting for food in Gaza are 'sickening', Lammy tells ITV News
More than 800 people have been killed in Gaza while trying to get food, according to the latest UN figures.
Of those, more than 670 people have been killed in the vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), often attributed to Israeli fire - including gunshots and tear gas.
In the latest shootings at a GHF site in northern Gaza, the Israeli military said soldiers fired at a crowd of thousands of Palestinians who posed a threat and acknowledged some casualties.
It comes as Israeli troops pushed into areas of Deir al-Balah - a central Gaza city where several aid groups are based - for the first time on Monday.
When asked if he would step in and do more than condemn the reports, Lammy said he had announced sanctions on Israeli ministers, sanctions on settlers and suspended arms sales to Israel.
"This war must come to an end. I'm very, very clear about that and so are other foreign ministers," Lammy told ITV News.
"When I look at the children who are being killed waiting for food, when I think about a population as densely populated as Gaza is now held within 15% of the country - the most densely populated area on the planet.
"All of this is egregious."
He continued: "We have asked the Israeli government to think again. We've told them that their aid system isn't working.
"We've told them to stop prosecuting this war and this conflict. And we're absolutely crystal clear now that this war must come to an end.
"We must see a ceasefire and there must now be an agreement."
On Monday, Lammy and his counterparts from 24 other nations, including France, Canada and Australia, urged Israel to lift restrictions on the flow of aid into Gaza in a joint statement.
They condemned the current aid delivery model, backed by the Israeli and American governments, which has reportedly resulted in IDF troops firing on Palestinian civilians in search of food on multiple occasions.
Israel claimed the statement from foreign ministers was 'disconnected from reality' and 'sends the wrong message to Hamas'.
Lammy said: "Yesterday's statement of 28 other foreign ministers calling for that aid to get in, calling for this war to come to an end, calling out the sickening scenes we're seeing of children being killed as they wait for food, is important.
"It's important to get the Israeli government to change course with the way it is prosecuting this war in Gaza and the new system that they put in praise for humanitarian aid.
"It's important that Hamas understand that we are watching them too, and they too are responsible."
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