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00:00 My constituent, British citizen Emily Fares of Tluingoral, is desperately seeking support on crowdfunding to bring over family members from Gaza.
00:09 She told me this morning, "My father-in-law was messaging me most of the last night as al-Masawi was coming under intense fire."
00:18 On loudspeakers, Israeli forces were asking displaced women and children to stay in their tents and for men to surrender themselves.
00:27 We didn't even hear until this morning that his brother and sister and children survived.
00:32 This is meant to be a designated safe zone and they are living in terror.
00:37 The government must be aware that the inconsistency with which Palestinians seeking to escape a war zone are being treated is set to be the subject of a legal challenge.
00:47 My constituent has seen the support provided by the UK government to Ukrainian refugees for two years.
00:56 Both she and I can only conclude that the lack of similar support to refugees, firstly from Afghanistan and now from Palestine, must now be morally and legally questioned.
01:08 Will the Minister justify to Emily why there is no such scheme for people trapped in Gaza?
01:15 Only a diplomatic means, we know, can solve this crisis and it has brought so many new horrors since October 7th.
01:23 One where the fighting stops, where Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners are released and there is finally a route to a sustainable two-state solution.
01:33 The longer we allow death and violence to continue, the rising reactionary forces of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia will continue to spread through all our communities.
01:42 - Yeah, I agree.
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