RAMALLAH, July 11, 2025 (WAFA) – Dozens of Labour Party MPs have called on the British government to immediately recognize the State of Palestine and take concrete action to prevent Israel from forcibly displacing the people of the Gaza Strip.
In a letter addressed to Foreign Secretary David Lammy, around 60 Labour MPs urged the UK to intervene urgently to stop Israel’s plan to forcibly relocate residents of Rafah in southern Gaza and to move forward with the official recognition of Palestine.
The MPs’ appeal comes in response to recent statements by Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz, who outlined a proposal to forcibly move all Palestinians in Gaza to a camp on the ruins of Rafah, before ultimately expelling them from the enclave
The British MPs considered the plans announced by Katz to mean that the Gaza Strip is being subjected to "ethnic cleansing, citing Israeli human rights attorney Michael Sfard, who described the plan as an “operational blueprint for committing crimes against humanity.”
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