LONDON: Campaigners have condemned a claim by the UK’s outgoing foreign secretary that there does not appear to be a genocide taking place in Gaza. David Lammy was responding to Sarah Champion MP, chair of the international development committee, who had asked him how the UK’s policy on supplying F-35 fighter jet parts complies with a duty to prevent genocide, given that the planes are used by the Israeli military.

The UK government does not believe Israel's actions in the Gaza strip is a genocide, a letter from the Foreign Office has said.

David Lammy said the government 'has not concluded' that Israel is acting with genocidal intent and suggested no serious risk of genocide exists in Gaza