{"id":7448,"date":"2025-09-17T06:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/israels-gaza-city-offensive-branded-horrific-as-pressure-mounts-for-starmer-to-act\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:03:16","slug":"israels-gaza-city-offensive-branded-horrific-as-pressure-mounts-for-starmer-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/israels-gaza-city-offensive-branded-horrific-as-pressure-mounts-for-starmer-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel’s Gaza City offensive branded ‘horrific’ – as pressure mounts for Starmer to act"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sir Keir Starmer is under mounting pressure to raise Israel’s bombardment of Gaza with Donald Trump during his UK state visit, after a UN Commission said a genocide was taking place.<\/p>\n

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey<\/strong> used the president’s arrival on Tuesday night<\/strong> to call for action on the escalating situation, as Israeli forces advance in Gaza City.<\/p>\n

Sky News analysis has found thousands of families remain in the city’s crowded tent camps<\/strong>, despite a ground offensive beginning yesterday.<\/p>\n

Sir Ed, who is boycotting the state dinner being held for Mr Trump, said Sir Keir must “press” the president now.<\/p>\n

He said: “What is happening in Gaza is a genocide. And the president of the United States, who wants a Nobel Peace Prize, is doing nothing to stop it.”<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, a United Nations Commission agreed Israel was committing genocide<\/strong> in Gaza – the first time such an explosive allegation has been made publicly by a UN<\/strong> body.<\/p>\n

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Israel<\/strong>‘s foreign ministry said it “categorically rejects this distorted and false report” and called for the commission to be abolished.<\/p>\n

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Reports suggest the situation will be a talking point between Sir Keir and Mr Trump during his visit.<\/p>\n

The calls to Sir Keir to press his US counterpart come before the UK is due to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly later this month, along with allies including Canada and France.<\/p>\n

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In a late night statement, Canada’s foreign ministry described the Gaza City offensive as “horrific”.<\/p>\n

‘We cannot be bystanders’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed added: “We have long said that Hamas is genocidal and condemned them for their actions.<\/p>\n

“Now, I think we have to say that what the Netanyahu government is doing amounts to genocide.”<\/p>\n

Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan, a former shadow minister, also called on her party leader to make discussing the situation in Gaza with Mr Trump a “top priority”.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky News’ Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge<\/strong>, she said: “We say ‘never again’ when we look at Bosnia and Rwanda, but here we are again, and it’s been livestreamed, and we’ve all seen it.<\/p>\n

“We cannot be bystanders to a genocide.”<\/p>\n

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It emerged on Tuesday that two of Ms Allin-Khan’s colleagues, MPs Peter Prinsley and Simon Opher, were denied by Israel from entering the West Bank.<\/p>\n

They were part of a UK parliamentary delegation to observe medical and humanitarian work being carried out. They were also due to meet British diplomats in Jerusalem, as well as Palestinian and Israeli human rights organisations.<\/p>\n

But they were instead held in a passport office and presented with a “legal form” insisting they leave the country.<\/p>\n

UN report pulls no punches<\/strong><\/p>\n

The accusation of genocide is made by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.<\/p>\n

It alleges Israel has been “killing Palestinians or forcing them to live in inhumane conditions that led to death; causing serious bodily or mental harm, including through torture, displacement and sexual crime; deliberately imposing inhumane conditions, and fourthly, imposing measures intending to prevent births”.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this month, the International Association of Genocide Scholars also passed a resolution stating that Israel’s conduct passed the threshold of committing genocide.<\/p>\n

However, a report from the British government said it had “not concluded” that Israel intended to “destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”.<\/p>\n

Nearly 65,000 people are now believed to have died, according to figures collated by Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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