The world must “seize this moment” to make peace in the Middle East the legacy of those killed during the Israel-Gaza war, Britain’s minister for the region Tariq Ahmad said on Wednesday. In impassioned remarks to the UN’s Human Rights Council in Geneva, Lord Ahmad said any pause in fighting must lead to a long-term end to the fighting and “irreversible momentum” towards a two-state settlement. “We must seize this moment. We must generate the momentum now. Why? Well, if there is to be a legacy to all those who have been killed, that legacy must be that their life mattered,” he said.
