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The charity has confirmed that John Chapman, 57, Jim Henderson, 33, and James Kirby, 47, were among the staff killed when their convoy was hit after unloading food at the Palestinian outpost.
The incident has prompted condemnation, with calls for the UK government to halt arms sales to Israel.
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In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer and House of Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Mr Flynn said: “As you know, the SNP has been calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Israel since October last year.
“We have repeatedly urged the UK Government to do more to secure an immediate ceasefire, including by ending arms sales to Israel.
“Our call to end arms sales to Israel has been repeatedly rejected by the UK Government and the Labor Party, despite overwhelming evidence that Israel is breaking international law by its indiscriminate bombing of Gaza and its collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
He added: “With three UK citizens among those killed in the Israeli strike on World Central Kitchen aid workers, it is vital that the UK Parliament is recalled immediately.
“This situation demands that the Prime Minister come to Parliament without further delay to outline the UK Government’s response to the killing of UK citizens by Israel, to enable MPs to scrutinize the UK Government’s response, and so that he can the Senate finally debated and voted on ending arms sales to Israel.”
The UK must end arms sales to Israel.
If the UK Government is not willing to act then Parliament should force them to do so.
But that cannot happen while the doors to Westminster are closed.
Parliament should be recalled immediately.#Gaza pic.twitter.com/4j1kTjHDWU
— Stephen Flynn MP (@StephenFlynnSNP) April 3, 2024
The House of Commons is currently in recess, and MPs are not expected to return until April 15.
Speaking to the Sun newspaper’s Never Mind the Ballots show, Mr Sunak defended what he described as the UK’s “very careful export licensing regime” around weapons.
“There is a set of rules, regulations and procedures that we will always follow, and I have been consistently clear with Prime Minister Netanyahu since the beginning of this conflict that we are, of course, defending Israel’s right to protect herself and her people from attacks. of Hamas, they have to do so in accordance with international humanitarian law, to protect civilian lives and, unfortunately, too many civilians have already lost their lives.
“Get more aid to Gaza. That’s what we’ve consistently called for and what we really want to see is an immediate humanitarian pause to allow more aid in, and essentially the hostages to be released, and that’s what we will’ n continue to push for it.”
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Lord Peter Ricketts, a former senior diplomat who chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee during the Blair government, said the killing of the aid workers by Israeli forces had sparked “global outrage” as he called for a “ceasefire at once”.
The cross-bench peer, who served as national security adviser between 2010 and 2012, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think there is plenty of evidence now that Israel has not been taking enough care to fulfill its obligations in terms of civilian safety, and a country receiving arms from the UK that must comply with international humanitarian law, that is one of the conditions of the arms export licensing policy.
“I think the time has come to send that signal.”
Darren Jones of the Labor Party suggested that stopping the sale of arms in the UK would not change the course of the war.
“The fact of the matter is that if the UK, for example, stopped supplying weapons, the war would not end. What we need to do is get the parties to a position where the fighting can end,” the shadow Treasury minister told ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme.
