Wearing a blue flak jacket, Lord Cameron stepped gingerly over a pile of crushed terracotta tiles lying outside of a bullet-riddled cottage as he toured a kibbutz targeted by Hamas in October.
The Foreign Secretary described what he saw in Be’eri on Thursday, where the terror group massacred more than 100 people and kidnapped many others on Oct 7 as “absolutely horrific”.
Lord Cameron said: “I wanted to come here to see it for myself; I’ve heard things, I’ve seen things I will never forget.”
The former prime minister arrived in Israel just a day before a highly-anticipated ceasefire deal was due to take effect.
Under the terms of the agreement, fighting will stop at 7am on Friday, with a first batch of hostages held by Hamas set to be freed in the afternoon. Critical supplies of aid will also be allowed to flow into the Gaza Strip, which has been devastated by Israel’s offensive.
Lord Cameron urged both sides to follow through with the deal after it was pushed back by a day at the last-minute, late on Wednesday evening.