Middle East

Adnan Hussain Excerpts
Monday 1st September 2025

(1 day, 23 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Lammy Portrait Mr Lammy
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It would be a breach of international humanitarian law, so we will keep working with our partners to try and ensure that it does not come about.

Adnan Hussain Portrait Mr Adnan Hussain (Blackburn) (Ind)
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The Foreign Secretary asks what more this Government can do to ensure that the genocide in Gaza is ended. Might I suggest that the doctrine of responsibility to protect is enacted by the United Nations, and that any and all means possible are exhausted to demand an end to genocide? Intervene to defend the helpless. Intervene to help the trapped and starved civilians of Gaza, half of whom, I remind the House, are children. Act now, immediately!