The international community is on the brink of securing a peace deal for Gaza that could finally bring an end to two years of conflict and a humanitarian crisis that has claimed thousands of lives, Yvette Cooper has suggested. I think we’ve reached a moment where the world wants to end this war,” Cooper said. But Foreign Office insiders are understood to be uneasy about aspects of the Trump plan, including what role Blair might play. after newsletter promotionMahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, was the last world leader Cooper met before she moved from being shadow foreign secretary in 2011, and the first when she became UK foreign secretary earlier this month. The war has to be brought to an end,” Cooper said.