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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Will Durrant

Labour demands recognition and prevention of Gaza ‘genocide’ at conference

Palestinians get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip (Jehad Alshrafi/AP) - (AP)

Sir Keir Starmer has suffered a blow at the Labour party conference after activists demanded the Government prevents “the commission of a genocide in Gaza”.

The Unison trade union tabled the emergency motion on Monday, which also called on Labour’s top team in Westminster to “ban trade with illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank” and apply “comprehensive sanctions”, including a full arms embargo, on Israel.

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