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Gaza

I welcome my right hon. Friend's efforts to achieve a ceasefire, and I hope that he will put equal effort into reopening the crossings and lifting the blockade if the ceasefire is to last. Although specific allegations of war crimes must be investigated, does he not agree with the thousands of people who have marched or written to newspapers that Israel's conduct of the war has been not only excessive and disproportionate but inhumane, both in scale and method, and an abuse of human rights?