The UK is to send a team of NHS medical experts to help people who have been injured because of the fighting in Gaza, Downing Street has said.
Staff including doctors, nurses and anaesthetists will fly out to the region in the next 48 hours.
Renewed clashes broke out between Israel and Hamas fighters on Friday after the end of a three-day ceasefire.
The Stop the War coalition is holding a march through central London on Saturday, passing the US embassy.
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"People have lost limbs... they need rehabilitation, they need prostheses, there will be chronically infected wounds," Prof Tony Redmond told the BBC
More than 1,900 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in four weeks of Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, the UN says.
Sixty-seven people have died on the Israeli side, three of them civilians.
'Crucial role'Prime Minister David Cameron said: "The conflict in Gaza has taken a terrible toll. The UK has been at the forefront of humanitarian efforts to help those affected and it is right that we see what more we can do.
"The NHS has always stepped up to the plate to help those in need and this expert team will play a crucial role in helping hundreds caught up in this conflict."
The health professionals being flown out to help are on the government's international emergency trauma register, which also includes paramedics and surgeons.
Human cost of the conflictPalestinian deaths
- 1,922 killed, including at least 1,407 civilians
- 448 children
- 235 women
Israeli deaths
- 64 soldiers
- 2 civilians
- 1 Thai national in Israel
(Source: OCHA; 0500 GMT on 8 August)
All medics on the register have volunteered their services, and are given training and called upon to respond to situations around the world.
Professor Tony Redmond, who is co-ordinating the Gaza operation, said 15 British medics would be sent out initially "in a staged process".
They would be expecting to treat people who have lost limbs and have "chronically-infected wounds", he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"There is a sad pattern of injury with these conflicts and it is that that we will be looking at addressing," he said.
'Desperate need'The NHS staff will initially be based with the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians at Al Mokassed hospital in East Jerusalem.
Although their main objective is to treat people in the region, Downing Street said some of the injured - particularly children - may need to be brought to the UK for treatment at specialist trauma centres.
The medics are being funded by the Department for International Development. The UK has already contributed £17m in emergency relief for Gaza.
That figure includes £3 million for the World Food Programme to provide emergency food and £6 million for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency's appeal to buy shelter and cooking equipment.
"The [emergency trauma] register was launched by the International Development Secretary Justine Greening in December 2012 and enables British medical experts to provide humanitarian assistance during disasters overseas," a government spokesman said.
Ms Greening added: "A month of violence in Gaza has left people in desperate need of immediate medical help. Every day of continuing violence adds to that.
"The volunteers on the register are experts in working in the most challenging conditions and will help hundreds of Gazans caught up in this violence."
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