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‘A classroom full of children has died every day for a year’
MPs demand government finally takes action to stop Israel's crimes in Gaza and Lebanon

PARLIAMENT piled pressure on the government to finally act over Israel’s genocide in Gaza and aggression in Lebanon today.

MPs across the Commons demanded that ministers halt arms sales to Israel, sanction its far-right leaders and immediately recognise a Palestinian state.

After several days of murderous outrages in Gaza and Lebanon, political patience with the government’s purely rhetorical criticisms appeared to be running out.

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