PARLIAMENT will be “shamed into ending its silence,” the Scottish National Party said today, after securing the first Commons debate on Gaza since 2024.

Today’s backbench business debate is only the second time Gaza has been debated on the floor of the Commons since Israel launched its bloody offensive in 2023, despite Britain being a key supplier of arms and intelligence to Israel.

SNP Middle East spokesman Brendan O’Hara, who tabled the debate, said: “For the first time in two years, Westminster will be shamed into ending its silence on the genocide in Gaza.

“Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has not only been shamefully slow or silent in acting against Netanyahu’s assault on the people of Gaza – worse, its has been complicit in failing to stop it.”

Pointing to the 449 Palestinians – including more than 100 children – killed since the so-called ceasefire began over a year ago, he added: “All the while the future of the Gaza strip is being grotesquely carved out by Trump’s Board of Peace – in which Labour’s former prime minister Tony Blair is a key member.

“The people of Gaza, the people of Palestine have suffered enough.”