Angela Rayner vowed a Labour government would recognise the state of Palestine as she urged Muslim voters to back her and the party at the next election.
Video circulating online shows the party's deputy leader speaking to voters in her Ashton-under-Lyne seat and thanking them for getting her 'over the line' at the 2019 election.
In the footage, believed to have been shot at an event on Sunday Mr Rayner tells the audience that Labour 'supports' the International Criminal Court, which last week said it would seek the arrest of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu - and senior Hamas leaders - over claims of war crimes in Gaza.
She then warns them a Labour government would have 'limited' influence to change the situation, adding: 'Qatar, Saudi Arabia, all of these people, we are all working to stop what's happening at the moment, we want to see that.
'I promise you that's what we want to see. If Labour get into power we will recognise Palestine.'
Labour faces a major backlash from its Muslim voters over the party's stance on Gaza. Sir Keir Starmer initially refused to back calls for a permanent ceasefire saying Israel had a right to defend itself.
The stance was blamed in part for Labour losing the Rochdale by-election to George Galloway earlier this year.
Meanwhile Ms Rayner faced pushback from television presenter and Reform UK president Nigel Farage, as he sounded the alarm about inner cities and towns moving into an era of 'sectarian politics with women completely excluded'.
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