(Reuters) -Srael has held two British MPs and access to the officials who were visiting as part of a parliamentary delegation, said British Foreign Minister David Lammy in a statement on Saturday in a statement.
Sky News, referring to a statement from the Israeli Ministry of Immigration, says that the detained parliament members work MPS Yuan Yang and Abbtisam are Mohamed, who were rejected because they were suspected of plans to “document the activities of security troops and spread anti-Israël hatred.”
Yang represents the Earley and Woodley constituency, while Mohamed is the MP for Sheffield Central. Both had flown from Luton to Israel on Saturday, said Sky News.
“I made it clear to my counterparts in the Israeli government that this is not a way of dealing with British parliamentarians, and we had contact with both MPs tonight to offer our support,” Lammy said.
“The focus of the British government continues to return to the cease -firing and negotiations to stop the bloodshed, to free up the hostages and end the conflict in Gaza,” he added.
(Reporting by rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Processing by Cynthia Osterman and David Gregorio)
