Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 25 March 2008.
David Taylor
Labour, North West Leicestershire
2:30,
25 March 2008
Foreign politicians by the planeload arrive in Jerusalem to heap praise upon the Israeli Government, but none goes to the Gaza strip to see how Israel's sanctions and its siege of the 1.5 million Palestinians have caused economic collapse, starvation, pitiful conditions and hundreds of deaths. Will the Foreign Secretary condemn Israel's actions at the EU and UN, as a political and moral obligation, and so end the collective international blindness to those outrages and deafness to Gaza's cries of despair, and the silence as Israel suppresses and destroys with impunity?