Rafah offensive: Suella Braverman says Israel must ‘finish the job to eliminate Hamas’

Speaking after the deputy foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell answered an urgent question on Israel’s military action in Rafah, Suella Braverman called for confirmation that the UK government will continue to support Israel “as she finishes the job to eliminate Hamas from Gaza”.

Mitchell replied that the former home secretary “makes clear in what she says that Israel has the right of self-defence”.

He added that Israel “must abide by international humanitarian law”.

Labour MP John McDonnell went on to call for the deputy foreign secretary and the UK government to “lead an international exercise to prevent this attack [in Rafah]”.

“One way of preventing it is to make it clear to Netanyahu, if this goes ahead, this government will pursue him as a war criminal into the international courts”, the former shadow chancellor added. 

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