Gaza: UN Human Rights Council Vote

Desmond Swayne Excerpts
Monday 21st May 2018

(6 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alistair Burt Portrait Alistair Burt
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With respect to my hon. Friend, until we see the make-up of the inquiry process, we will not know the answer to that. I made it very clear that if Israel is not only to undertake its legal obligations for what has happened on its territory but to fulfil its own processes, an international element to the investigation will clearly be one of the most important things, and that should bring the transparent and independent element that the UK and others have called for in order to find out the answers to these questions.

Desmond Swayne Portrait Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (Con)
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Human rights are constrained and violence exacerbated by a water shortage that the UN says will render Gaza entirely uninhabitable by 2021. Does anyone have a plan?