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Ben McKay

NZ Labour labels Israel's attack on Gaza as genocide

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters has moved a government motion on the Israel-Hamas conflict. (Mark Coote/AAP PHOTOS)

New Zealand Labour has labelled Israel's attacks in Gaza as genocide in a parliamentary debate which ended with unanimous support for "urgent steps towards a ceasefire".

Foreign Minister Winston Peters moved a government motion on the Israel-Hamas conflict on Thursday, expressing "grave concern at the ongoing violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories".

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