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Ministers risk being ‘judged as participants’ if they don't act to end ‘mass murder’ in Palestine
Relatives mourn a child killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, August 30, 2024

BRITISH ministers risk being “judged as participants in a policy of cold-blooded mass murder” unless they drop the weasel words and stop facilitating Israel’s war, peace campaigners warned today.

Palestinians returning home described a “wasteland” in the central Gaza city of Khan Younis after Israeli troops withdrew following a 22-day operation.

And images of similar devastation flooded the internet from the occupied West Bank, where Israel has opened what is effectively a new front in the war in recent days.

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