I meant that that was how Keir Starmer sees it, and it looked like a line he does not want to cross. If you could have seen his face - it was stoney determined.
Live in the House of Commons -watching it now. So many MPs are extremely upset, standing up one after another to say this must stop. Someone mentioned the person burnt alive who was on an IV drip - they have been watching.
A few in favour of Israel’s operations have been bringing up the idea that it is up to Hamas to take the first steps.
Annaliese Dodds is evidently sympathetic to all the MPs, but is fielding it all: The U.K. has been calling for a ceasefire in Gaza cand Lebanon, the U.K. does recognise the IJC, tye givernment is determined the humanitarian law should not be broken.
Someone has just stood up to say the U.K. government quite evidently is giving partisan support to Israel, citing the PM.
Someone just mentioned support for Lebanon had fallen last year and surely that was a mistake.
Someone has just said that egregious breaches of international law by our ally cannot continue to go unstopped. What message will be sent to Israel to say they must stop this behaviour?
New voice: brining up Hezbollah tunnels near UNIFL, saying we should deal with terrorism instead of berrating Israel.
Chi Onwurah was bringing up Howard Jacobsen having recently written that current reporting on children being killed in Gaza is ‘blood libel’. She describes actual blood libel and that it is anti-Semitic, and agrees it was terrible, but then she goes on to say it must be clear that current reporting is not blood libel, and the public must have access to sources of news about this.
Lord Cameron has done the preparatory work to sanction two members of the Israeli government / what’s happened to it why hadn’t it been implemented.
I cannot keep up. So many MPs are standing up to speak.