A six-member British parliamentary delegation arrived in the besieged Gaza Strip on Friday via the Rafah border terminal on a three-day visit, the crossings and borders department announced.
It said in a statement that the British MPs were received on arrival by a delegation of the UN agencies in Gaza.
It said that the visit in coordination with UNTWA and other UN agencies in Gaza would include a tour of hospitals, schools and devastated areas to get a first hand information on the suffering of the Palestinian people in the beleaguered Strip.

In a related context, Irish foreign minister Michael Martin has described the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip as "inhumane and unacceptable" in an opinion piece for the International Herald Tribune published on Friday.
Martin, who visited Gaza Strip last week, described the living conditions in the Strip as "medieval", adding, "The tragedy of Gaza is that it is fast in danger of becoming a tolerated humanitarian crisis".
“[It is] a situation that is proving extremely difficult to remedy or ameliorate due to the blockade and the wider ramifications of efforts to try and achieve political progress in the Middle East,” Martin, who was the first European foreign minister to enter the Mediterranean coastal strip in over a year, said.
He will raise the issue at an EU foreign ministers meeting in Cordoba, Spain, this weekend, he said. The European Union Commission and EU member states are the largest aid donors to Gaza.
“What I witnessed in Gaza, amidst all the rubble and devastation, was a population traumatized and reduced to poverty by an unjust and completely counterproductive blockade,” Martin said.

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