Reply #5: Straw condemns 'appalling' violence

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Straw condemns 'appalling' violence
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has condemned the "appalling acts of violence" which have seen the British Council set ablaze in Gaza City and reports of kidnaps of foreign nationals.

He told MPs Britain had withdrawn its monitors from a prison in Jericho, later occupied by Israeli forces, only because the Palestinian Authority had never met its obligations to protect them.

The withdrawal from Jericho was the trigger for Palestinian attacks on British and other foreign targets in Gaza City and along the Gaza Strip.

In answer to a specially scheduled Commons question Mr Straw told MPs: "I must emphasise the Government's condemnation of the appalling acts of violence. They are totally unwarranted."
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