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BLOG – Israel at war; Hamas hostages: Day 56

Israel-Hamas ceasefire extended for 24 hours; at least 8 hostages expected to be released on Thursday

November 14, 2023, 2:14 pm Edit
Hostages released since the truce: Eitan Yahalomi with his mother and Emily Hand with her father
Hostages released since the truce: Eitan Yahalomi with his mother and Emily Hand with her father
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Government should consider urging the UN to deploy peacekeepers to West Bank

The Government should consider urging the UN to deploy peacekeepers to prevent violence in the West Bank, a Conservative former cabinet minister suggested.

Kit Malthouse (North West Hampshire) drew the attention of ministers to the “unfolding tragedy taking place in the West Bank”, telling MPs there were “getting on for 200 Palestinians who have been killed by settlers and the IDF” in the region.

Mr Malthouse added: “He rightly in his statement urged Israel provide protection from them. If the state of Israel declines to do so and the killings continue, would he consider the intervention perhaps of the UN peacekeeping force to keep the peace in that part of the world?”

Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell responded: “We have condemned the settler violence without qualification, and in terms of the work of the United Nations, where there are many opportunities I hope in the future, we will be neglecting none of them.”

Elsewhere in the debate, Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough) appeared to suggest that humanitarian pauses alone would not address a “grave humanitarian crisis now unfolding in Gaza”, describing them as only a “first step”.

Mr Dhesi, who serves as a shadow Treasury minister, said: “The damage to water pipelines, sewage pipes, hospitals, schools and other infrastructure needs to be urgently rebuilt. That, I think, will require a much longer negotiated ceasefire from both sides and a release of all hostages.”