Nicola raised the media's misreporting of the explosion at the Al-Alhi Hospital in Gaza with the Foreign Secretary during a statement in Parliament. In her question, she raised how the misappropriated blame of Israel for the explosion had been widespread across the media and stated how important it is for the Government to independently assess what happened.
Nicola Richards: "Last night, much of the UK media felt it appropriate to immediately and with no room for doubt blame Israel, before the IDF gave its evidence that the rocket was launched from Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
"It is right that the UK Government independently assess what happened. All that is made so much harder because Hamas have no morals, no boundaries and no problem with killing any innocent civilian in Israel or Gaza.
"Will the Foreign Secretary reassure me that he knows that standing with Israel now will put us on the right side of history?"
James Cleverly: "My hon. Friend is right to highlight the callous nature of Hamas’s activities and those of other terrorist groups embedded in Gaza.
"We expressed our solidarity with the Israelis in their time of grief in the aftermath of those terrible attacks, and we stand in solidarity with them still.
"We are good friends with the state of Israel. Good friends speak honestly with each other, and we will always do that, but we will always stand beside a nation that seeks to protect itself and its people in the face of such a relentless terrorist threat."