This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla set sail to deliver aid to Gaza, where Palestinians face a horrifying manmade famine. When Israel illegally seized the Madleen, a British-flagged ship, in international waters earlier this year, our government did nothing in response. During PMQs, I challenged the PM to set out what steps ministers will take to protect British citizens aboard the Sumud as they seek to do what the international community has failed to do: break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.

In his response, the PM condemned the manmade famine in Gaza but ducked my actual question. Talking about getting aid into Gaza is all well and good but the only way this will happen is through concerted pressure on the country currently blockading the territory and preventing food, fuel, medicine and water from entering. That’s why we need to see a full arms embargo on Israel, comprehensive sanctions and the cessation of military cooperation between our countries.

For more information about my response to the Gaza genocide, please see my page setting out a range of issues that constituents have written to me about.