Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the leadership of the Palestinian Authority about the killing of Israeli worshippers in a synagogue in West Jerusalem on 18 November.

We condemn the appalling attack on worshipers at the West Jerusalem Synagogue and call on leaders to make clear global abhorrence at this attack. On 19 November our Deputy Consul General in Jerusalem discussed the attack with Prime Minister Hamdallah. Hamdallah expressed his strong condemnation of the attack on the synagogue and drew attention to the fact that President Abbas and the Palestinian Cabinet both condemned the attack on 19 November.