THE UK Government has officially denied the genocide in Gaza, it has emerged.
SNP MP Brendan O’Hara, speaking in the Commons on Wednesday, revealed that Government lawyers had said that “no genocide has occurred or is occurring” in the besieged Palestinian territory.
Keir Starmer was confronted with the comments, made in the High Court, at Prime Minister’s Questions.
O’Hara said: “The Prime Minister has repeatedly told this House that it is not for him or his government to determine what is and what is not a genocide. But that position is no longer tenable because at the High Court recently, the Prime Minister instructed his lawyers to argue that in Gaza, and I quote, ‘no genocide has occurred or is occurring’.
“So the truth is, his government has made a determination. The question is: does he have the courage of his convictions and will he repeat from that despatch box what he told his lawyers to argue in the High Court? That he believes that no genocide has occurred or is occurring in Gaza?”
Starmer did not back the lawyers’ comments and responded with a jibe about the SNP’s opposition to nuclear weapons.
He said: “I have said that we are strongly opposed and appalled by Israel’s recent actions, I’ve been absolutely clear in condemning them and calling them out; whether that’s the expansion of military operations, settler violence or the dreadful blocking of aid, it’s completely unacceptable.
“We must see a ceasefire, hostages must be released and there must be aid into Gaza.
“But he talks about peace and security, their party, as I understand it at this moment of global instability as we go into a new era, what do they want to do? They want to get rid of the nuclear deterrent, the single most important capability that we have to keep the UK safe, harming the industry and harming the country.”
