Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden was grilled by the Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party in the House of Commons over the human rights violations allegedly committed by Israel.

Mhari Black hit out at Mr Dowden over the mass graves uncovered in Gaza and called for the UK to halt arms sales to Israel.

The SNP’s deputy Westminster leader, told the Commons: “Two years ago when mass graves were discovered in Ukraine, this House united in condemnation and rightly treated this graves as evidence of war crimes, which Russia must be made to answer for.

“Yesterday, Palestinian officials uncovered two mass graves outside the bombed hospitals in Gaza. These graves also constitute as war crimes don’t they?”

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