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Ben McKay

NZ Labour MP deletes incendiary pro-Hamas retweet

New Zealand's ACT party has demanded the resignation of a Labour foreign spokesman for retweeting a statement justifying Hamas' attack on Gaza.

On Sunday, Damien O'Connor, the former trade minister and a long-serving Labour MP based on South Island, reposted an edited speech by retired US military official Lawrence Wilkerson.

"Palestinians have every right to do whatever they did on October 7th," Mr Wilkerson said in the post.

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