Tribunal hears evidence of UK complicity in Israel’s Gaza war crimes
A two-day public tribunal has opened in London to amass evidence of Britain’s complicity in Zionist regime’s war crimes in the Gaza Strip, where the occupying regime is waging genocide against Palestinians.
Organized by former British Labour party leader and now independent lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn, the event began on Thursday featuring surviving Palestinian victims of Israeli atrocities, as well as experts in international law, journalists, medics and academics.
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, addressed the inquiry via a video call.
She said there is a "requirement on states like the UK to cease investment and economic relations” with Zionist regime, but they have "miserably failed" by providing the usurping entity with weapons, military assistance and political support.
"This failure to abide by long-standing international obligations might be sufficient to establish a criminal case for complicity in the actions of Israel," she added.
Albanese also noted that government officials can be held individually accountable for crimes such as approving arms sales to Israel and providing it with intelligence.
Zionist regime has martyred 64,231 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 161,583 others since October 7, 2023, when it unleashed its brutal Gaza onslaught.
Zionist regime has also imposed mass starvation on the Gaza Strip by preventing the entry of essential supplies to the territory.
As a key backer of Israel in its genocidal war on Gaza, the UK has been providing military aid to Israel, primarily in the form of real time intelligence sharing through surveillance flights over the besieged territory.
Also speaking at the tribunal, Katie Fallon of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), reported a "huge increase" in weapons components sent from Britain to the occupied territories over the past two years.
John McEvoy, chief reporter for Declassified UK, revealed that Britain has been shipping components for trainer aircraft to Israel and training Israeli soldiers “even as recently as last month.”
Meanwhile, British MP Richard Burgon said the government is "complicit through the political greenlight" it gives to Israel.
Natalie Roberts, the executive director of Doctors Without Borders, described how "medical teams are working under the harshest conditions with little food for themselves".
Nick Maynard, an Oxford academic and surgeon who has travelled to Gaza three times during the ongoing genocide, said he believed children were used as "target practice by the Israeli soldiers”.