A Scottish Labour MP hasn become the first of the group to publicly urge the UK Government to end arms sales to Israel.
Brian Leishman has become the first Scottish Labour MP to call for the government to suspend all arms export licences to the Middle East county.
The Alloa and Grangemouth MP said: “The killing has to end. As does arms sales.”
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has previously called for arms sales to Israel to be banned, as have the SNP.
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP Melanie Ward had urged the Tory Government to end arms sales before she was an MP. Ward was then chief executive of Medical Aid for Palestinians and is now in the Scotland Office.
Leishman made the comments when sharing a video on X of late Labour stalwart Tony Benn making a speech in the build up to the Iraq War.
The video had been posted by former Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard with the words: “‘Aren’t Arabs terrified? Says it all. Stop the slaughter, end arms sales to Israel.”
Benn had said “Aren’t Arabs terrified?” in the video, after discussing how “terrifying” the Blitz had been for him as a teenager.
The debate took place in 2003, as MPs discussed the last Labour Government’s decision to invade Iraq.
The current Labour Government suspended 30 out of 350 arms licences to Israel last month.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the suspension applies to “items that might be used in the current conflict” in Gaza. A review found a “clear risk” UK arms may be used in “a serious violation of international humanitarian law” in relation to the war in Gaza.
It comes after tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed following Israel’s invasion of Gaza. The invasion was sparked after Hamas, which runs Gaza, attacked Israel on October 7 last year and took hundreds of hostages.
The conflict has recently threatened to break out into a wider war. There have been airstrikes between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, with Israeli forces invading Lebanon earlier this week and Iran launching a missile attack in response.
British citizens in Lebanon have been told to leave the country
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