Maxmur refugee camp

That this House condemns the aerial bombardment of civilian areas in Iraq and Syria by Turkish forces during the night of 1 February 2022 resulting in at least two deaths and many serious injuries; understands that the areas targeted included the UN registered Maxmur Refugee Camp and villages in Shengal, the heart of the Yezidi community which suffered genocidal attacks at the hands of ISIS in 2014; notes that Maxmur Camp houses approximately 12,000 Kurdish people displaced from Turkey in the 1990s and that the UNHCR completed a registration process at the camp in order to build international confidence in the civilian nature of the camp, countering Turkish state attempts to conflate the camp with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK); and calls on the Government to use all diplomatic channels to pressure Turkish counterparts to bring an immediate end to the war crimes against Kurdish people in Iraq, Syria and at home in Turkey, to institute economic sanctions if necessary, and to place people and ethical principles at the heart of its foreign policy.