"The publication of these messages reveals a shameful failure to publicly say something you knew privately to be true: that this government was complicit in war crimes, Corbyn's letter said. It is now a matter of public record that you decided to serve in the cabinet of a government that was providing military, economic and diplomatic support to a state that was breaching international law."
"the health secretary argued last year in favour of recognising Palestine as a state. Morally and politically, I think we need to join France, Streeting wrote in July 2025. Morally, because Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes. Their government talks the language of ethnic cleansing and I have met with our own medics out there who describe the most chilling and distressing scenes of calculated brutality against women and children."
Jeremy Corbyn called on Health Secretary Wes Streeting to cooperate in exposing the United Kingdom's complicity in alleged genocide in Gaza after private messages showed Streeting acknowledged Israeli war crimes. Corbyn sent a letter rebuking Streeting for serving in a government that continued military, economic and diplomatic support for Israel despite those admissions. The published messages showed a failure to publicly state what Streeting knew privately and recorded his arguments for recognising Palestine. Streeting voluntarily released messages with former ambassador Peter Mandelson to show transparency, including his statement that Israel's government 'talks the language of ethnic cleansing' and medics described calculated brutality.
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