France, July 29 -- The leaders of Germany, France and Britian are weighing up whether to dispatch their foreign secretaries to Israel next week, the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday.

Merz's announcement came a few hours after a collectiveof United Nations agencies and non-governmental monitors issued a food insecurity and malnutrition alert for the Gaza Strip.

"We will probably ask the three foreign ministers ... to travel to Israel together next Thursday to present the position of the three governments," Merz told a press conference in Berlin alongside Jordan's King Abdullah II.

On Monday, just before the king's arrival in Germany, Merz said the two countries would work together to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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