Keir Starmer won't criticise Israel for cutting water supplies to Gaza

“It's unthinkable, shocking and appalling. The murder of men, women and children in cold blood...Israel has the right to defend itself."

Labour leader Keir Starmer won't criticise Israel for cutting off water to Gaza when pressed on #TimesRadio.

[mahmed]

I can't believe Starmer has just endorsed a war crime😂
Water is a human necessity..
The true people will not for him because he is against the humanitarian aid to Gaza🙏

[WhoDaresWinso]

This is actually disgusting, tell me who rules you.

[Mogwai]

So the former barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions just endorsed a war crime.

[hakanpetersson]

Keir Starmer sitting on the fence on whether Genocide attempts should be condemned or not, what an absolute disgrace of a human being.

[adamesd]

I miss the old Labour Party that actually had a spine.

[mahmed]

End the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestinian land👌

[julianshepherd]

Collective punishment is prohibited by treaty in both international and non-international armed conflicts, more specifically Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II.
You'd think he would know that.

[kirrausanov]

I would like to ask Mr Netanyahu: is genocide the most adequate answer to Hamas's terrorist attacks?
What is next? From classifying a whole nation as "subhuman/anima-like" it is only one step to ethnic cleansing, resettlement to Madagascar, concentration camps, execution of 100 Palestinians for every killed Jew, "final solution" of the Palestinian problem "...
PS
"Since 2008, Israel has killed and injured 150, 000 Palestinians.
33, 000 of them were children. But no one talks about that, no one calls them terrorists."

[mahmed]

Starmer should talk about the Israels occupation and settlement expansion.🤠
Its time for the world to act🙏💯

[Crouchy]

Following orders was not an alibi at the Hague following the holocaust.

[stevengarside]

Starmer, Lammy, Thornberry. Never forget these apologists and abetters of war crimes - crimes as grave as mass starvation, indiscriminate killing of civilians, and ethnic cleansing. This is not hyperbole. We know them by their own words, recorded on video. These shameful clips should haunt them for the rest of the their lives!!

[ImranKhan-poll]

He is a Zionist. Bring Jeremy Corbin back!

[walkaz]

Expect nothing less from a guy that refused to prosecute jimmy savile

[eijazbhatti]

Waste of a human being, labour lost my vote when he came to power, spineless

[mahmed]

From Starmers words it looks like he has know humanism in him.✍️

[Mogwai]

Wonder what made a former barriser and top prosecutor look the other way when it comes to war crimes against Israel. 🤔

[myla]

Starmer is a real let down. In fact he's a disgrace. This will surely have lost him the Muslim vote.... deservedly. And I hope a lot more votes too.
Thing is the toads on the other side are no better and he's banking on that. Odious.

[steveknight]

And what of all the atrocities committed by Israel over the last 60 or 70 years? The deliberate killing and removal of Palestinians from what was Palestinian land? The removal of Palestinians to create Jewish settlements? The creation of ghettos for the Palestinians? The current killing of hundreds of Palestinian people, including women and children, in the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza? And why is it that Russia is (rightly) condemned for targeting civilian infrastructure such as electricity in Ukraine, but apparently it is OK for Israel to target electricity, food and water supplies in Gaza? This whole situation is appalling, and caused in no small part by the Israeli desire to have the whole of what was Palestine for themselves alone.

[dundeeguy]

Because he's a coward, the failure of so called leaders to condemn israel for its actions is to blame for the hamas attacks.

[cliffthedog]

He won't critisise his employer that ain't going to happen.