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Israel and Gaza

Debate between Andrew Mitchell and Amy Callaghan
Tuesday 19th March 2024

(9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrew Mitchell Portrait Mr Mitchell
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The Government’s answer is that the two positions are not analogous; they are very, very different. The hon. Member will know that we are doing everything we can to help individual cases in both instances, and we will continue to do so.

Amy Callaghan Portrait Amy Callaghan (East Dunbartonshire) (SNP)
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Save the Children has reported that 1.1 million people across Gaza are facing catastrophic food insecurity at the hands of Israel, with one in three children acutely malnourished. Does the Minister agree that Israel’s tactic of starving the Palestinian people is a war crime?

Andrew Mitchell Portrait Mr Mitchell
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As I have set out several times, we are doing all we can to make sure that the necessary food and resources get into Gaza, so the point that Save the Children makes in the evidence that the hon. Member read out is addressed, and we will continue to do precisely that.