A move towards a peaceful leadership in Palestine is the most desirable outcome in the Israel-Hamas conflict, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley said today, reiterating Britain’s support for the two-state solution.

“In the short term it is inevitable that Israel, because it has troops in Gaza, will need to take some responsibility for security,” Cleverly told the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Tokyo.

“But our view is, when that becomes practicable, that the preferred outcome would be a move toward a peaceful Palestinian leadership,” he concluded.

Disagreements intensify within Labor – MP resigns

The conflict between Israel and Gaza is reviving divisions within the Labor Party, which Keir Starmer has reunited and brought back to the center after succeeding in 2020 left-wing Jeremy Corbyn, who had been accused of allowing anti-Semitism to grow within the party .

A party MP has resigned from the leadership group because he disagrees with the position taken on the conflict between Israel and Hamas by Starmer, who is under increasing pressure.

Starmer, who polls say could become the next UK prime minister, calls for humanitarian “pauses” rather than a ceasefire, aligning itself with the country’s conservative government and other world leaders.

But his position is criticized within the Labor Party, where some consider it too pro-Israelfollowing the attack launched on October 7 by Hamas against Israel and the massive Israeli retaliation.

“It has become clear that my position on the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza differs markedly from the position you have taken,” he wrote in his resignation letter to Keir Starmer. Imran Hussain, MP for Bradford in the north of England and responsible for working in the ‘shadow cabinet’, Labour’s shadow cabinet.

In his letter made public late yesterday, Tuesday, evening, Imran Hussain, a member of the left wing of the Labor Party and for eight years a member of the “shadow cabinet”, strongly condemns the attack of October 7, but considers that Israel’s right to defend itself “should not be made a right to violate international law for the protection of civilians nor to commit war crimes”.