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Pious Projects’ Paediatric Hospital: Gaza

Tuesday 24 June 2025 · 2 questions

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Answered 0 Partly answered 2 Not answered 0

Key points

  • Jeremy Corbyn wrote to the Foreign Secretary on 18 June regarding a prefabricated children's hospital assembled by Dr Mohammed Mustafa in Jordan, ready for Gaza.
  • The hospital would help the 400,000 children in northern Gaza with no medical access.
  • Marsha De Cordova questioned the Minister about the repeated bombings of the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, run by the Anglican Church in Jerusalem.

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Questions & Answers

Q1 Jeremy Corbyn Your Party Islington North
NHS Foreign Affairs
Context

Corbyn wrote to the Foreign Secretary on June 18th regarding Dr Mohammed Mustafa's proposal to assemble a children’s hospital, ready to be deployed into northern Gaza. The hospital would serve over 400,000 children lacking medical facilities.

Question

I wrote to the Foreign Secretary on 18 June asking if he would meet Dr Mohammed Mustafa, who has assembled a children's hospital in prefabricated form in Jordan and is ready to go into Gaza. It will be able to help the 400,000 children in northern Gaza who have no access to any medical facilities at all at the moment. This is desperately urgent. Will the Minister meet Dr Mustafa to familiarise himself with the opportunity here of doing something practical and good to help desperate children in northern Gaza?

Answer from The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Mr Hamish Falconer)

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his continued engagement on these questions. We have discussed across the Dispatch Box many times the restrictions on aid getting into Gaza, including in relation to construction materials. I am very happy to take a further look at this specific proposal and see if there is anything that we can do.

Partly answered

Not addressed: The Minister did not commit to meeting Dr Mustafa or reviewing the proposal specifically but indicated he would consider it.

How: We Will Continue To Assess How We Can Best Support Those In Need

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Q2 Marsha De Cordova Lab Battersea
NHS Foreign Affairs Religion & Faith
Context

The al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, run by the Anglican church in Jerusalem, has faced repeated bombings. Recently, a strike hit the hospital compound, resulting in five deaths, including that of a father escorting his son to surgery.

Question

The al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, which is run by the Anglican Church in Jerusalem, has repeatedly been bombed. Earlier this month the hospital compound was hit, killing five people, including a father escorting his son to surgery. The Minister has spoken much about the need for aid to get in, but will he set out what concrete action he is going to take now? Saying that Israel must do something does not mean that it is going to act, so what action he is going to take to ensure that the attacks on hospitals, medics and patients ends?

Answer from The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Mr Hamish Falconer)

I want nothing more than for the attacks on hospitals, medical personnel and aid workers to end. My hon. Friend is right that I have said many times from this Dispatch Box that I want that to be the case, yet these strikes have continued. We continue to raise these issues with the Israeli Government. We have taken a series of actions, many of which we have discussed already over the course of this morning, and we will continue to take action until things change. Until things change, this Government will not be satisfied.

Partly answered

Not addressed: The Minister did not provide specific concrete actions but reiterated ongoing efforts without commitment to new measures.

How: We Have Taken A Series Of Actions, Will Continue To Take Action Until Things Change

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