Statement in full on #Gaza by @TheGreenParty - BEGINS: As Israel appears to be on the brink of an all out assault on Rafah, despite warnings against such action by the UN, Red Crescent and others, 🧵 1/ Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer is demanding the UK scale up actions against the Israeli government until the killing stops. Greens are calling for an end to all arms sales to Israel, prosecutions of war criminals and targeted sanctions on Israel’s leaders. 2/

In 1996, when head of the 'Arab-Israel' desk in the Foreign Office, I wrote a speech for then Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, a Tory. It stated that the UK's position on Palestine was premised on international law, in particular UN resolutions 242 and 338 (cont). (cont.) which call for an end to the occupation of the Palestinian territories, by which we meant the West Bank (all of it, not pockets), Gaza and E Jerusalem.

Here are some sanctions that might actually make Putin pay attention unlike the laughable package so far announced. Thread. #Ukraine Set up a multinational UK/US/allies unit to pursue Kremlin-connected money and freeze it worldwide. This is hard diplomatic graft but necessary in the absence of comprehensive UN sanctions. We will need to persuade countries one by one.