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Karam Harara holds the body of his 2-year-old daughter Sabreen, who was among 20 people, mostly women and children, killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza, before her funeral at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, May 19, 2024
MPs from across the political spectrum told the government today that it must back the International Criminal Court in its actions against Israeli war crimes.
In a letter to Foreign Secretary David Cameron, more than 100 parliamentarians — MPs and peers — urged “the UK government to do all it can to support the International Criminal Court” in its work.
The letter, organised by Labour MPs Richard Burgon and Imran Hussain, came as the government continued to dismiss the decision of the court’s chief prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas leaders.
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