Starmer pressed over UK sanctions against Israel for ‘war crimes’ targeting Palestinian children

Starmer pressed over UK sanctions against Israel for war crimes targeting Palestinian children Source: Reuters

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00:00Let us be clear in this house. Israel is starving Palestinian children. That is a war crime.

00:10Israel is killing Palestinian children as they queue for food. That is a war crime.

00:21Our government, quite rightly, imposes thousands of sanctions on Russia for its war crimes in Ukraine.

00:33How many more horrors must be witnessed before the Prime Minister acts with the same scale of sanctions against Israel to stop this genocide?

00:45Don't Palestinian lives matter?

00:48Hear, hear.

00:49Prime Minister.

00:50Mr Speaker, as I said earlier, I am appalled by reports of more civilians being killed in Gaza, particularly when they are trying to access aid.

01:00Each of those incidents does need to be fully and transparently investigated, with accountability for any failing.

01:07That, of course, has to be alongside the ceasefire that is desperately needed, and we are working hard with others to achieve,

01:15to release all of the hostages that remain, but also to protect civilians and get much more aid at speed and volume into Gaza.

01:24The matter is, according to the

01:47Bye-bye.