Posted on 11/13/24
| News Source: Arutz-7
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has rejected the accusations that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip and scolded the MP who made them.
During a Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons on Wednesday, MP Ayoub Khan, an Independent representing Birmingham Perry Barr, stated: "Genocide is not about numbers. It's about intent. And the intent of the Israeli government and the IDF has been explicitly clear in words and inactions over the past 400 days”.
According to him, there were “more than 45,000 innocent men, women and children killed”, without mentioning that those casualty figures, provided by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, do not distinguish between terrorists and civilians.
Being that Starmer and his Defence Secretary David Lammy have rejected the accusations of genocide before, The MP requested that the Prime Minister “share his definition of genocide with this House.”
Starmer retorted: "It would be wise to start a question like that by reference to what happened in October of last year”, to which the members of his party applauded.
He continued: “I'm well aware of the definition of genocide, and that is why I've never referred to it as genocide.”