Emily Thornberry calls out 'deliberate policy' to kill and maim unarmed protesters

LONDON - Boris Johnson was speaking after Labour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry raised an urgent question in parliament over the deaths in Gaza.

She said: "What makes yesterday's events all the worse is that they didn't come as a result of some accidental over-reaction to one day's protest, but as the result of a culmination of six weeks, an apparently calculated and deliberate policy to kill and main unarmed protesters, who posed no threat to the forces on the Gaza border.

"Many of them shot in the back. Many of them shot hundreds of metres from the border, and many of them children.

"And if we are in any doubt about the lethal intent of the Israeli snipers working on the border, I'm afraid we only need to look at the wounds suffered by their victims.

"On hunting websites in America, they regularly debate the merits of 7.6 mm bullets versus the 5.5 mm bullets. The latter, they say, is effective when you want to wound multiple internal organs, while the former is preferred by some because, and I quote, 'it is designed to mushroom and fragment, to do maximum internal damage to the animal'.

"And it was this ammunition, it is alleged, that was used in Gaza yesterday against men, women and children."