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SDLP Leader Challenges PM On UK's Stance On Gaza Genocide
SDLP Leader Claire Hanna MP has directly challenged Prime Minister Keir Starmer during Prime Minister's Questions, demanding to know what the UK Government is doing to "end the genocide in Gaza".
Speaking in the House of Commons, the South Belfast and Mid Down MP expressed profound anguish over the conflict: "Anyone who saw the six-year-old girl fleeing the flaming shelter where her family were killed by an Israeli airstrike will carry that horrific image with them forever." She described the current situation as "very dark days," asserting that "Gaza is a stain on the soul of humanity."
Ms Hanna further criticised the perceived lack of global leadership, stating it's "a further shame that there is more moral clarity coming from Ms Rachel on YouTube than from many world leaders who are complicit in silence."
Referencing a recent statement by the Prime Minister about Britain needing to be "ready for war," Ms Hanna directly questioned his approach to the conflict: "I ask after tens of thousands of deaths, after a generation of Gazans stunted by hunger and trauma, when will it be ready for peace? When will it help to stop this genocide, when will it hold the Israeli government to account and when will it recognise the state of Palestine?"
Speaking in the House of Commons, the South Belfast and Mid Down MP expressed profound anguish over the conflict: "Anyone who saw the six-year-old girl fleeing the flaming shelter where her family were killed by an Israeli airstrike will carry that horrific image with them forever." She described the current situation as "very dark days," asserting that "Gaza is a stain on the soul of humanity."
Ms Hanna further criticised the perceived lack of global leadership, stating it's "a further shame that there is more moral clarity coming from Ms Rachel on YouTube than from many world leaders who are complicit in silence."
Referencing a recent statement by the Prime Minister about Britain needing to be "ready for war," Ms Hanna directly questioned his approach to the conflict: "I ask after tens of thousands of deaths, after a generation of Gazans stunted by hunger and trauma, when will it be ready for peace? When will it help to stop this genocide, when will it hold the Israeli government to account and when will it recognise the state of Palestine?"
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