The United Arab Emirates has stressed the need for a “temporary international mission” that can begin addressing the enormous humanitarian fallout of the war in Gaza after the fighting comes to an end.

“Consolidating peace and security and ending the humanitarian suffering should begin by the deployment of a temporary international mission in Gaza with a formal invitation from the Palestinian government,” UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem al-Hashimy told the official WAM news agency.

She added that the mission must put the strip on a pathway to eventual reunification with the Occupied West Bank under the rule of the Palestinian Authority.