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An ethical Labour needs to be on the front line in challenging Israel’s human rights abuses
The newly launched Labour and Palestine group is looking to build a voice for Palestine in every constituency. HUGH LANNING reports
People watch medics while move a wounded youth, who was shot by Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, into the treatment room of Shifa hospital in Gaza City last Friday

IF you are a Palestinian two things are very clear. There is no peace, there is no plan. 

For Palestinians living in Israel, in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem or in the many refugee camps in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, there is no peace. The UN’s fortnightly reports document deaths, injuries, displacements and settler attacks. 

We have become immune to the statistics, but if you are a Palestinian the day-to-day reality is one of a constant risk and threat that you will become the next person to become a number in those statistics.

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