Middle East crisis: UN human rights council to consider call for Israel arms embargo – as it happened
by Amy Sedghi (now); Martin Belam and Aneesa Ahmed (e from World news | The Guardian on (#6KT1P)
If draft brought forward by Pakistan is adopted, it would mark the first time that the UN's top rights body has taken a position on the war in Gaza
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The UK should stop arming Israel, a former national security adviser has said, after seven international aid workers were killed in Gaza in an Israeli airstrike.
Lord Ricketts, who was also the former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: Sometimes in conflict, you get a moment where there's such global outrage that it crystalises a sense that things can't go on like this."
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