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86 MPs seek sanctions against Israel

New Delhi, July 28
Cutting across the party line, 86 Members of Parliament today asked the government to immediately suspend arms purchases from Israel and seek global sanctions against it for its continued military strikes against Lebanon. The MPs belonging to Left parties, the RJD, the NCP, the Samajwadi Party, the TDP, the AIADMK, the DMK and others, submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh making the twin demands. — TNS