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More than 130 Labour MPs turn on UK Government over 'unacceptable' inaction on Israel

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper is under pressure to take action on Israel (Image: PA)

THE UK Government must end its “unacceptable” failure to act against Israel war crimes and ban all trade with illegal settlements, some 140 Labour MPs have said.

In a joint letter signed by former ministers and all of the Labour chairs of Westminster select committees, the UK Government has been told there is an “urgent need for accountability and concrete consequences in response to Israel’s violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are spiralling by the day”.

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