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Dozens of MPs call for UK to recognise Palestine as state
Nearly 60 Labour MPs have called on David Lammy and the Foreign Office to immediately recognise Palestine as a state.
A mix of centrist and left-wing MPs, including some committee chairs, wrote to the foreign secretary this week to say "by not recognising [Palestine] as a state, we undermine our own policy of a two-state solution and set an expectation that the status quo can continue and see the effective erasure and annexation of Palestinian territory". The 59 MPs suggest the government pursue five different measures to prevent the Israeli government from carrying out its Rafah plan, adding that they believed Gaza was being "ethnically cleansed" - a claim vehemently denied by Israel.
The letter was organised by Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East group. It states that the Israeli plan, which would see the "population transfer to the southern tip of Gaza in preparation for deportation outside the strip.
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