ALT Dear Foreign Secretary, Like millions of people across the globe, I am watching in horror at the unfolding violence in Palestine and Israel. On Saturday, Hamas brutally killed civilians in Israel in an unprecedented attack by its forces and I absolutely condemn those actions. Every loss of life is a tragedy, which is why those awful crimes do not justify the indiscriminate killings and war crimes that have since been committed by Israel. International law is clear on that point. If Britain is to stand-up for international law and human rights on the world’s stage, we must expect its allies to adhere to those standards. Gaza, home to 2.2 million people, almost half of whom are children, is one of the most densely populated areas on Earth, described as an “open-air prison” by a United Nations expert. But Israel has shut off supplies of food, water, electricity and fuel to the besieged enclave, dropping 6,000 bombs on the area, obliterating entire neighbourhoods. ...