Middle East Update Debate
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Andy Slaughter
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(2 days, 18 hours ago)
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Mr Falconer
As the House knows, I will not make a determination from this Dispatch Box on questions of law. We assess risk. I can confirm that those assessments are ongoing and that a prevention of humanitarian aid reaching Gaza is part of them.
Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith and Chiswick) (Lab)
As we approach the anniversary of the ICJ advisory opinion on the occupation, what is delaying the UK Government’s response? Is it that the opinion requires not just recognition that the occupation is illegal, but the Government to set out what steps they will take to end that occupation? Will the Minister at least say from the Dispatch Box whether the Government believe that the movement of the Palestinian population of Gaza would constitute a forcible displacement?
Mr Falconer
Forcible movement of the Gazan population out of Gaza would be forcible displacement, and that is a clear concept in international law.