MPS expelled from Israel Receive the support show from colleagues from the Municipalities | Politics

The cabinet ministers and more than 70 parliamentarians organized a solidarity show with two parliamentarians who were arrested and prohibited by the entrance to Israel In what was the first time that British parliamentarians had been banned from the country.

The Secretary of Health, Wes Streeting, and the head secretary of the Treasury, Darren Jones, joined the photocall in the Westminster room on Monday with the parliamentarians, together with Hamish Falconer and Minister of Accommodation Rushanara Ali. It was organized by Rochdale’s parliamentarian Paul Waugh.

In a declaration of the Municipalities, Falconer said that both Israeliani entrances were granted to both of them before traveling and said that the ban “seems to have been taken on the basis of the comments made in this room”, defining the “unacceptable and deeply worrying” treatment.

He said that the government of the United Kingdom clarified him at the “highest level” in Israel and praised Yuan Yang and Abisam Mohamed for their dignity.

Yang and Mohamed both got up at home for applause. Mohamed said his treatment was “unprecedented” and the opinions he had expressed in House of Commons They were “legitimate political opinions that are firmly aligned with international laws”. He said that many Israelis and charity had also asked for change in a similar way.

“It was not security, it was control and censorship,” said Mohamed, deputy for Sheffield Central, adding that “he desperately wants to see a two -states solution, he desperately wants to see peace”.

Yang, a deputy for Earley and Woodley, said he had been heartened by the solidarity shown by other parliamentarians from all common goods. Yang said he understood the risks of traveling in the region, but “I did not anticipate the risks of detention and deportation by a British ally”. He said: “If my experience has shown something, that’s what we say in this room matters.”

Falconer said that the parliamentarians had initially believed that they would be arrested during the night without their phones and in the end they were released after the intervention both by him and by him Foreign Secretary, David Lammywho spoke with his Israeli counterpart.

“All members should be worried about what this decision and the previous one that establishes. We have warned that actions like this only damage the image of the Israeli government in the eyes of the honorable members throughout the Chamber,” said Falconer.

The minister also condemns the killing of 15 paramedics in a convoy of ambulances near Rafah, calling him a “outrage” and asking for a return to the negotiations of ceased the fire. “This conflict cannot be won by bombs and bullets but by diplomacy, he said.

The photocall in support of parliamentarians, Streeting told The Guardian that he had been on a similar visit to the Council for British Arab understanding (Caabu) and medical assistance for the Palestinians-and questioned because the two had been targeted.

“The way they were treated two really excellent colleagues was totally unacceptable,” he said.

“I think this is really important that this is included in the context of two highly respected two Work Parliament members were held in high regard throughout the parliamentary party that were going to a delegation just like the one on which I was with Caabu and medical assistance for the Palestinians – without the type of challenges they had.

“In the context of what is happening in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the moment, having intuition, meeting a series of voices is really important. It is highly deplorable that the Israeli authorities have acted in this way.”

The parliamentarians who joined the solidarity show included the president of the selected committee for Foreign Affairs Emily Thornberry, the president of the Select Treasury Committee, Meg Hillier, Melanie Ward, a Labor Deputy who was the former CEO of Medical Aid for the Palestinians and the former Development Minister Anneliese Dodds.

Caibu has brought a total of 161 MPs and colleagues in the region since 1997, including Streeting, the secretary of culture, Lisa Nandy, the former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, the former secretary of education Kit Malthouse and the leader of Lib Dem, and Davey.

Other high -profile politicians who have visited as part of their delegations include the former ministers Nick Herbert and the late Tessa Jowell and the parliamentarians of the Lib de dem Alistair Carmichael and Christine Jardine.

Speaking in the room, Falconer sentenced the Comments of the conservative leader, Kemi BadenochThose who said on Sunday that the two parliamentarians were not allowed to entry because the Israeli authorities “did not think they respect the Israeli law”. Falconer said that it was not the reason why Israeli officials gave, adding: “The opposition leader should apologize”.