Letter to foreign secretary in run-up to UN vote says failure to call for end to hostilities is ‘morally indefensible’
David Cameron has been urged in a letter from foreign policy experts including a former head of the armed forces to back an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza in the run-up to a crucial UN security council vote.
The failure to call for a ceasefire was “strategically ill-advised and morally indefensible”, the British foreign secretary was told in the letter, as senior Conservatives also added to pressure on the government for a shift in its approach to the conflict.
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