Dear David Cameron,

I feel very helpless and useless in being unable to help the people of Gaza and Palestine, but you are not.

It truly baffles me that in this day and age you and all your esteemed colleagues in Parliament can just sit back and let this happen. I have been to Israel and I have been to Palestine; I have seen the suffering first hand, I have seen the daily injustice first hand. Neither am I anti-Semitic – I have Jewish and Palestinian friends who I love just the same – I am human. I know the difference between what is right, and what is wrong, and what is going on – not just in Gaza but in Palestine as a whole – is wrong.

I do not agree with missile strikes of any kind – Hamas or Israeli – but what I do take opposition to is the unlawful, and wholly unjustified, killing of innocent people.

I think it is time for you to stand up and be counted. Defending Palestine/Gaza would potentially mean jeopardising political ties with America but how – as a husband, a brother, a son and a father – can you sit there and watch these atrocities unfold? The state of Israel will never see what they are doing, they are so blinded by fear that they cannot understand that what they are doing crosses the line into genocide and apartheid. Do you want to be the leader of a country who, when asked what they have done or did do to help diffuse the situation, says ‘I did nothing’ or do you want to be the leader who says ‘I stood up for human rights, I stood up for injustice and I stood up for the underdog’? I know which side of the fence I would rather sit on.

This is your time, Mr Cameron. I have not often agreed with anything your Government has done, but this, Mr Cameron, will give your country a faith in you that no tax cut, no free service, is ever going to give them.

You are a human, Mr Cameron. So have a heart. Do what is right, Mr Cameron. Do what your country is calling for you to do and intervene. Free Gaza and free Palestine before it is too late.

Emily Clark, Stonelea, Hilperton.