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Foreign Office stays tight-lipped on Israel's Gaza slaughter

FOREIGN Office ministers failed to condemn Israel’s murderous Gaza onslaught yesterday despite a growing outcry against the mass slaughter.

MPs and trade unionists issued urgent calls to the British government to denounce Israel’s relentless attacks on innocent civilians.

Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood angered MPs when he kept insisting that Israel had “a right to defend itself” against rocket attacks from Gaza.

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