Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn will visit east Jerusalem with a humanitarian group during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories this week.

Mr Benn, who landed in Ben Gurion airport this morning for the three-day visit, will tour east Jerusalem with the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

He will also visit Holocaust memorial museum Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, a spokesman confirmed.

Mr Benn is due to meet senior figures from the Knesset and Palestinian Authority, including PA president Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Labour Party leader Isaac Herzog, the director-general of Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dore Gold, and Britain’s ambassador to Israel David Quarrey.