The government has now tabled its own amendment to the SNP motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. This change to the text calls for ‘negotiations to agree an immediate humanitarian pause as the best way to stop the fighting’, and then ‘moves towards a permanent sustainable ceasefire’. It also says that a ceasefire requires all hostages to be released, the formation of a new Palestinian government and – crucially – ‘Hamas to be unable to launch further attacks and no longer in charge of Gaza, and a credible pathway to a two-state solution’.
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