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HANSARD Middle EastThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Lincoln (Mr Falconer), was in Syria last week discussing these very…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI make no apology for trying to affect behaviour on the ground as we head to the UN General Assembly meeting and for giving diplomacy a chance. It still has an opportunity to work…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI urge the hon. Gentleman to keep up to date with the latest. He will have seen that there have been announcements by Hamas on the terms for a ceasefire. We have not yet got that…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastThe plans deliberately attempt to thwart a two-state solution: they effectively split the land and they drive out Bedouin and villages. The plans were opposed by the last…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastYes, I do—100%.01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI recognise the experience that the right hon. Gentleman brings to the Chamber. He will have heard the Prime Minister raise those issues with President Trump in Scotland, and I…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI reassure my hon. Friend that we are working with our European counterparts. When I speak to Kaja Kallas and other European Foreign Ministers, what I get is the deep frustrations…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI ask the hon. Gentleman to look in detail at export licences and how they work. As I have said, we are not sending arms to Israel. He will recognise, however, that we are…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI reassure the right hon. Gentleman that this is an open procurement. No decisions have been made, and no decisions will be made until 2026. The whole House will have heard what…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI am grateful, as I am sure the whole House is, for the update on that situation. I will not comment on the individual case, but when I was making the IHL assessment on a clear…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI assure the hon. Member that I have made those representations to the Israeli Government, and so has the Minister for the Middle East, who sits next to me. I also know that this…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastThe answer is, very simply, yes. I am of Christian faith, like my hon. Friend’s Baptist constituents, but people of all faiths and no faith are horrified by what they are seeing…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI say to the right hon. Gentleman, who has considerable experience, that it is my job to make sure that we are not complicit. That is why we are not selling arms that could be…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastMy hon. Friend will understand that the Israeli Government have set themselves against some of the UN agencies that would need to uphold that, so I think that that feels unlikely…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI remind the right hon. Gentleman of the letter that President Abbas wrote to President Macron, where he was clear for the first time that there can be no role for Hamas. We will…01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastI think I agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman has said, and that is what we are attempting to do.01 Sept 2025HANSARD Middle EastWe stand with the international community in all our efforts. In terms of what comes next, we support the Arab plan. We are working with Arab partners to improve that plan and to…21 Jul 2025HANSARD Middle EastMy hon. Friend will have heard the statement that I made today on the extra steps that we are taking in terms of humanitarian aid. He will have seen the statement, made by 31…21 Jul 2025HANSARD Middle EastI can reassure my hon. Friend that I spoke to the UN about this last week. We are working with the UN, and I was pleased that the World Food Programme was able to get some extra…21 Jul 2025HANSARD Middle EastAs my hon. Friend has heard, what we are seeing is inhumane, it is deadly and it is depriving Gazans of human dignity. As she would expect, the Government, working with our…21 Jul 2025