Rishi Sunak delivers a statement to Parliament following his diplomatic communications, including a phone call to Western leaders overnight.
Sir Keir Starmer says the 'brutal attack in Israel just over two weeks ago was the darkest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust'.The Labour leader says 'Hamas want the chaos of war' and 'want Jews to suffer'.'Hamas want the Palestinian people to share in the pain because the Palestinian people are not their cause,' he says.'Peace is not their aim. The dignity of human life, Jew or Muslim, means absolutely nothing to them.
'Yes to get their hostages home but also to defeat Hamas so nobody needs to suffer like this again,' he adds.'And that we might once more see a road to a lasting peace, a Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure Israel,' he says.Sir Keir says 'innocent lives must be protected' and 'these are the principles that differentiate us from the terrorists who target Israel'.
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