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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Dec. 13 2023

Source Page: UK and US target Hamas with new sanctions to isolate terror group
Document: UK and US target Hamas with new sanctions to isolate terror group (webpage)

Found: We will continue to work with partners to reach a long-term political solution so that Israelis and Palestinians


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Tue 07 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Altmann (Con - Life peer) This amendment would be deleterious to the Palestinians themselves. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) There may be some factories employing Palestinians that have been closed down, but thousands of Palestinians - Speech Link
3: None Recently I was the chair of Christian Aid and we did quite a lot of work in Gaza—there was a lot on educational - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) As set out in FCDO guidance on overseas business risk, there are clear risks related to economic and - Speech Link
5: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) fighting, which is the best route to secure the safe release of hostages and significantly step up aid - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Israel and Gaza - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord True (CON - Life peer) security, freedom, justice, opportunity and dignity’.Hamas simply does not stand for the future that Palestinians - Speech Link
2: Lord Newby (LDEM - Life peer) But when the Government say that £10 million is an increase of a third in humanitarian aid to the Palestinians - Speech Link
3: Lord True (CON - Life peer) We are providing £27 million in overseas development aid to the Occupied Palestinian Territories this - Speech Link
4: Lord True (CON - Life peer) and facilitate humanitarian aid. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Israel and Gaza - Mon 23 Oct 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Over 4,000 Palestinians have been killed in this conflict. - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Where Palestinians are forced to flee, they must not be permanently displaced from their homes. - Speech Link
3: Mohammad Yasin (Lab - Bedford) Over a million Palestinians have been displaced, and many more are suffering without access to food, - Speech Link
4: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) Let me ask the Prime Minister this: how many more Palestinians must die before he condemns Israel for - Speech Link
5: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) Will he look again at the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill, which is coming - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Whether she is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to help retain researchers from overseas who are - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) Since the outbreak of war in Gaza, over 23,000 Palestinians have been killed, including 10,000 children - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) our first maritime shipment of aid to Egypt. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Percy (Con - Brigg and Goole)Palestinians are dying whilst the Zionists are laughing their lives away.” - Speech Link
5: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) As I have said, we have trebled our aid commitment. - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
2023/24 Israel-Hamas conflict: US, UN, EU and regional response - CBP-10007
May. 15 2024

Found: Hamas released 105 hostages from Gaza an d Israel released 240 Palestinians from Israeli prisons. 8


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) The only people who would be hurt are the impoverished Palestinians working in the businesses in the - Speech Link
2: Lord Pickles (Con - Life peer) is why it is sitting on so much of the food supply; that is why there are lorries waiting to deliver aid - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, and that those powers enable fair and equal treatment of overseas - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) The Government agree and say that this is a terrible problem, that it is confusing for our partners overseas - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict - Tue 14 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) that may have occurred since 7 October, committed by State and non-State actors against Israelis and Palestinians - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) in Gaza and the immediate and unconditional release of all the hostages.If the conflict and violence overseas - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) From 2016 to 2018, gender-based violence aid funding was only 0.1% of total humanitarian funding. - Speech Link


Select Committee
Palestine Briefing
MENA0052 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: They have all condemned Israel’s settlement policy but continued to give Israel military aid of


Select Committee
Human Rights Watch
MENA0037 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: 3iv.Advocate for an end to unlawful interference with humanitarian operations and human rights abuses in aid