Referring to the ongoing Gaza crisis, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that “this terrible conflict must end”, AFP reports.

“We continue to stand by Israel’s right to defeat the threat from Hamas terrorists and defend their security. But the whole of the UK is shocked by the bloodshed,” he said in a statement.

UN chief Antonio Guterres called for a “paradigm shift” rather than “scattered measures”.

Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defence agency, told AFP on Saturday that aid reaching Gaza is “absolutely not sufficient” for its 2.4 million people. Around 1.5 million Gazans are sheltering in Rafah in the territory’s far south near the border with Egypt.

“We are ordinary citizens and human beings,” Siham Achur, 50, said in the tent that is now her family’s home.

“Why did they bomb our house?”