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Sir Keir Starmer is going through stress from Labour MPs to denounce Donald Trump’s plans to “take over the Gaza Strip” as an act of “ethnic cleansing”.

The US President instructed journalists on the White House that America would “own” the Middle Eastern area after the battle with Israel subsides and remodel it into the “Riviera of the Middle East”.

Despite declaring that “everybody I have spoken to loves the idea”, Mr Trump has confronted criticism for his plans to displace Palestinians to facilitate the posh resort – with some describing the proposal as “ethnic cleansing”.

While the UK Prime Minister has contradicted Mr Trump by asserting that Palestinians “must be allowed to rebuild” as a part of a two-state answer after the warfare is over, he has stopped wanting condemning Mr Trump’s concept as an try to “cleanse” the Gaza Strip.

Backbench Labour MPs haven’t been so reticent, nevertheless, with a rising variety of voices from inside his personal celebration urging Mr Starmer to take a stronger stand towards the US administration.

“Diplomacy cannot be an excuse for silence in the face of ethnic cleansing,” Clive Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South, instructed The i Paper.

“This is a clear moral and legal red line. Either you stand for international law and basic human decency, or you don’t. If you can’t take a stand on this, then where will you ever draw the line?”

Andy McDonald, MP for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East added: “It is staggering that a President of the United States would sanction and rubber stamp ethnic cleansing.”

“It shows just how detached he is from international norms, but it’s imperative that the rest of the world resists and rejects that as a way forward,” he added.

Richard Burgon, MP for Leeds East, instructed the Commons this week that Mr Trump had “lifted the lid on Israel’s plan” to ethnically clease Gaza and orchestrate the “forced displacement of Palestinians”.

“Nobody can any longer claim they didn’t know, and don’t know what’s going on – a genocide,” he added.

“[Palestinians] must be allowed home. They must be allowed to rebuild,” the Prime Minister mentioned in response to Mr Trump’s feedback.

“And we should be with them in that rebuild, on the way to a two-state solution.”