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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

UK government has failed Palestinian people, says senior Labour MP

Palestinians pray in rows among rubble and destroyed buildings, including a damaged blue-domed mosque
Palestinians pray beside a mosque destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP

The UK government has let down Palestinian people and failed to make it economically impossible for Israel to continue to act with impunity in the West Bank and Gaza, the Labour chair of the foreign affairs select committee, Emily Thornberry, has said.

She accused her own government of lacking ambition and wringing its hands on the Palestinian crisis, and she chastised Donald Trump for declaring a ceasefire in Gaza and then walking away, leaving Gazans to live in rubble.

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