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Grant Shapps, the defence secretary, has said that he has asked Israel to “strain every sinew” to get aid into Gaza.
Speaking on a visit to the Rolls Royce site in Derby, with his Australian counterpart Richard Marles, where parts of the nuclear submarines being made under the Aukus partnership are manufactured, Shapps said Israel had a right to go after Hamas, but that it should follow international law. He said:
The important thing is that Israel is, of course, a democratic country that has a responsibility to adhere to international humanitarian law, and that’s a point that I make publicly as well as privately to the Israelis, including in a meeting yesterday with the Israeli ambassador in London.
And commenting on that meeting, Shapps said:
I had the [Israeli] ambassador in with me yesterday and we’ve said that we want Israel to do everything possible, strain every sinew, to get that aid in. We wouldn’t be paying for it and sending the aid if we didn’t want it to get to the Palestinian population.
49m ago11.11 EDTPalestine Solidarity Campaign says it has no plans to march ‘anywhere near Cenotaph’ on Armistice Day
Rishi Sunak issued a statement earlier saying he wanted the Home Office and the police to ensure Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday events in London next weekend are not disprupted by pro-Palestinian protesters. (See 1.25pm.) This is clearly a popular cause on the right. Richard Tice, leader of Reform UK (the successor to the Brexit party) has just put out a statement saying pro-Palestinian marches should be banned in the UK next week and that this ban should be “enforced by all means necessary”. He seems to be taking inspiration from the Tory MP…
2023-11-03 10:42:27
Article from www.theguardian.com
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