Wes Streeting Said Israel Was Committing War Crimes. What Now?

UK’s New Defence Minister Called Israel ‘Rogue State’ – Consortium News

Wes Streeting is now responsible for the military treaty with a country he believes committed war crimes, reports Dania Akkad. By Dania Akkad Declassified UK Late last July, as a famine unfolded in Gaza and Israeli settler attacks intensified in…Read more →

Wes Streeting said Israel was committing war crimes. What now?

Late last July, as a famine unfolded in Gaza and Israeli settler attacks intensified in the West Bank, Wes Streeting texted a friend shortly before midnight. “Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes,” the then health secretary told Peter Mandelson over WhatsApp.“Their government talks the languages of ethnic cleansing and I have met with our own medics out there who describe the most chilling and distressing scenes of calculated brutalit…

Wes Streeting is clueless about Israel - Politics, Policy, Political Views

As Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya, in his first speech as head of the terrorist group’s political bureau, promised to ‘continue on the same path and footsteps as before, carrying the banner high, until it flies over Al-Aqsa (Jerusalem) and the lands of a free and proud Palestine,’ Britain’s new Defence Secretary was also making his own promises to diminish Israel. Labour’s strange fixation on Israel appears increasingly driven by the need to satis…

Greens welcome Defence Secretary Streeting's comments on Israeli war crimes - Green Party

In a letter to the new Defence Secretary, Green MP Dr Ellie Chowns, has called on Wes Streeting to work with counterparts in the Foreign Office and the Department for Business and Trade to end all arms sales to Israel, following his comments earlier this year that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. Wes Streeting in an interview to the News Agents on 5th June 2026 said, “I had seen serious and substantial allegations of war crimes being com…

Labour must end complicity in Gaza crisis

The new Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and Defence Secretary Wes Streeting must end UK complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the Scottish Greens have said. In a recently published note to disgraced Labour figurehead Peter Mandelson, Streeting accused Israel of “committing war crimes before our eyes” and using “the language of ethnic cleansing.” As Labour leader in 2014, Miliband whipped Labour MPs to support Palestinian statehood. He also oppo…