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Wishing those who celebrate a Happy Passover! During a festival celebrating freedom, we call for the 133 hostages still held captive by Hamas in Gaza to be released

Chag Pesach Sameach.

My message to Jewish communities here in the UK and around the world this Passover.

On Monday Michael Ellis underscored reports that an official from the Saudi Arabian Royal Family said that “Iran “engineered a war in Gaza” in order to destroy the progress that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was making in normalising relations with Israel”.

'Hamas are terrorists, and we should all say so', Robert Jenrick reminds the House after Niyak Ghorbanii was arrested and de-arrested for a second time yesterday, after holding up a placard stating the fact.

WATCH: Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt thanks the House for 'their resolve and support with regard to Israel's security', and expresses 'hope this will be the last Jewish holiday' where hostages held captive by Hamas in Gaza are unable to celebrate with their families.

WATCH: Michael Ellis highlights the 'significant improvements' of aid flow into Gaza as expressed by White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby.

WATCH: Bob Blackman underscores that 'Hamas refused to accept a ceasefire on the terms that have been agreed' for hostages to come out and more aid to get in, noting that 'Hamas are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East'.

. Oliver Heald MP calls for pressure to be put on Hamas 'by their interlocutors who are working with them to do something solid on the hostage problem, and to do it speedily'.

. Greg Smith MP highlights the U.S. has commended Israel 'for stepping up the amount of aid getting into Gaza' yet notes that Hamas has 'sought to hijack the trucks, and seek to cynically use the distribution of aid as a political weapon'.

BREAKING: Suicide drone launched by Hezbollah hits community center in Arab Al-Aramsha. 7 injured including 1 critical. jpost.com/breaking-news/…

After the IRGC's attack on Israel last week, I asked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to:

❌Proscribe the IRGC
❌Impose sanctions on the regime
❌Return our officials in Iran back to the U.K

As I asked PM Rishi Sunak in the UK House of Commons this afternoon, why are Iran Air still operating out of Heathrow? Why are Iranian banks still operating out of London? More must be done to counter the Iranian regime’s influence and malign intentions.

Lord Wolfson on the need for 🇬🇧 support for Abraham Accords as the way to bring long term peace to the region👇David Wolfson

. Robert Halfon MP ➡️Working Hard for Harlow⬅️ highlights 7 October “massacre” was carried out in order to “torpedo” warming relations between Israel and its Arab neighbours, and sees the joint efforts to thrawt Iran’s attack as a “new opportunity” for the region to “rebuild relations”.

. Suella Braverman MP calls for IRGC proscription stating that the IRGC “is the world’s chief sponsor of terrorism, funding and promoting terrorist plots, radicalisation and hostage taking both in the Middle East and at home”.

Let’s call the IRGC what they are, terrorists.

Our statement on Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel 👇

Additional Royal Air Force jets and air refuelling tankers have deployed to the Middle East to bolster Op Shader, the UK’s existing counter-Daesh operation in Iraq & Syria.
 
In addition, the jets will intercept airborne attacks within range of our existing missions. My statement: