Labour Party members have voted to accept that a genocide is taking place in Gaza by Israel - putting pressure on the government to also do so.

Members voted to approve an emergency motion at Labour's conference to accept the findings of the UN commission of inquiry, which nearly two weeks ago concluded Israel "has committed genocide" .

Israel has repeatedly denied this and called the report "distorted and false".

The vote will place further pressure on the government after Sir Keir Starmer and his ministers have refused to declare a genocide is taking place.

They have argued that the issue is a matter for the courts, with Israel fighting a case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in which the country is accused of genocide.

After the UN Commission of Inquiry on the

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