Even as the Secretary of State responds to This Appalling Humanitarian Crisis, will he look beyond that crisis, which was predictable and predicted, and take up again the proposal by the former Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary of State to the General Assembly, and again by Warren Christopher during his recent African tour?

5 million people who are imprisoned in Gaza with the Appalling Humanitarian Crisis there.

British generosity through our leading NGOs will make a huge difference to This Appalling Humanitarian Crisis".

My Lords, does the Minister accept that providing lethal weapons, as the Government appear to want, to the deeply divided Syrian opposition can only exacerbate the civil war in Syria and lead to a further deterioration of the Appalling Humanitarian Crisis which is affecting both Syria and her neighbours?

That, and helping to solve the Appalling Humanitarian Crisis now engulfing Syria and its neighbours, must be our principal aim in the years ahead.