The health ministry said the new deaths took the war’s toll to 53,901 since the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.

The British Medical Association, the union representing doctors, has said the pay rise does not go far enough in restoring historical pay freezes.

Dr Darby qualified as a doctor in 1984 from the University of Birmingham and qualified as a GP in 1989. From 1989, he worked as a GP Partner at the Halesowen Medical Practice, retiring in 2016.