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Al Jazeera Staff

UK lawmakers urge Foreign Secretary Lammy to recognise Palestinian state

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy is under pressure from dozens of lawmakers from his own party to immediately recognise Palestine as a state [File: Fazry Ismail/Pool via Reuters]

Nearly 60 lawmakers in the United Kingdom have written to Foreign Secretary David Lammy this week, calling out Israel’s plans for the “ethnic cleansing” of Gaza and demanding the country immediately recognise Palestine as a state.

The 59 lawmakers, all from the governing Labour Party, criticised Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz’s plans to force Gaza’s 2.1 million Palestinians into a so-called “humanitarian city” – likened by some analysts to a concentration camp – built on the ruins of Rafah.

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