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Political leaders must demand peace and justice in Palestine
Israel's trauma is not a free pass for war crimes, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Palestinians carry a body of a dead person found under the rubble of a destroyed house after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 24, 2023

IN THE wake of this month’s Hamas attack on Israeli settlements, the British government, along with other Western governments, gave vocal and emphatic backing to Israel’s “right” to “defend itself.”

This support has been undiluted even though Israel has cut off food, water and medical supplies to the civilian population of Gaza and unleashed a mass air assault on this tightly packed residential area — according to media reports, more bombs were dropped on tiny Gaza in 10 days than the US dropped on Afghanistan in its first year of operations there.

Israel has also ordered more than a million Gazan civilians, half of them children, to leave northern Gaza and cram into a tiny area against the Egyptian border.

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