LONDON: The UK government has let down the Palestinian people by failing to stand up to Israel or follow through with support for a two-state solution, a prominent MP with the ruling Labour Party has said.
Emily Thornberry, the former shadow attorney general, said the government lacked ambition when it came to Gaza and had allowed Israel to act with “impunity” there and in the West Bank, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.
“Anyone who believes that what Gazans have right now is a genuine ceasefire has to look at what the truth is. They need to look at the pictures of the children who’ve been bitten by rats as they sleep in displacement camps in mountains of rubble,” said Thornberry, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
“More than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed, but we also know that the death toll continues to rise during this so-called ceasefire.”
Speaking at an event in London hosted by Medical Aid for Palestinians and the Council for Arab-British Understanding, she said though recognizing a Palestinian state was the correct first step to take, more needs to be done to bring about a two-state solution.
