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UK could face legal action for ‘genocide complicity’, argues Scottish politician

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Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy gives a press conference in Abuja on 4 November, 2024 (AFP/Kola Sulaimon)

Scottish National Party MP Chris Law accuses David Lammy of exposing UK to ‘significant risk’

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has been warned that the UK as a state, “alongside individual ministers and government officials as individuals”, is at “significant risk of future legal action for complicity in acts of genocide”.

In a letter to Lammy on Monday, seen by Middle East Eye, Scottish National Party MP Chris Law accused the foreign secretary of failing to “demonstrate any responsibility of the UK government to prevent genocide”. 

“Do you accept that the UK’s obligations [under the Genocide Convention] should have been triggered from the moment the government became aware of a serious and imminent risk that genocide could be perpetrated,” Law asks in the letter.

The Scottish politician goes on to accuse the foreign secretary of appearing to “diminish the very definition of genocide”, after Lammy suggested last month in parliament that Israel’s actions in Gaza do not constitute genocide because fewer than millions of people have been killed.

Lammy said that terms like genocide “were largely used when millions of people lost their lives in crises like Rwanda, the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the way that they are used now undermines the seriousness of that term.”

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Local food systems in Gaza ‘devastated’ by Israel military operations: UN

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Original article republished from Memo under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 

Palestinians, including children, who escaped from the attacks of the Israeli army and took shelter in the Khan Yunis, located in the south of the Gaza Strip and who are struggling with hunger due to the embargo imposed on the region by Israel on the Gaza Strip, wait in line to receive meals distributed by charities while Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip continue uninterruptedly in Khan Yunis, Gaza on December 01, 2024 [Hani Alshaer – Anadolu Agency]

The UN, on Monday, said that local food systems in Gaza have been “devastated” by Israel’s land and air strikes, highlighting access to food as one of the most pressing concerns, Anadolu Agency reports.

Our humanitarian partners are also warning that local food systems have been devastated by military ground operations, the bombardment of civilian areas and the presence of unexploded ordnance

said UN spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, during a news conference.

He stated that “access to food remains the most critical concern raised by community members across all groups”.

Dujarric emphasized that food insecurity in Gaza is “worsening” daily, leaving people “more vulnerable”.

Describing the bakeries in Gaza as a “lifeline”, he said they are unable to remain operational due to a lack of fuel and flour.

Responding to Anadolu’s question on World Central Kitchen suspending its aid operations as well as UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) recently halting aid via Karm Abu Salem Crossing due to security concerns, Dujarric referred to his previous comments about the ongoing lack of food, UN’s inability to distribute aid and said “the facts are pretty clear, and they’re pretty horrific”.

READ: UK urges Israel to ensure unhindered aid to Gaza

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Israel demolishes over 1,500 Palestinian structures in occupied West Bank in 2024

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Israeli security forces demolish buildings and mosque in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, where an evacuation and demolition order has been issued for the construction of Israeli settlements, in Negev Region, Israel on November 14, 2024 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]

Israeli occupation forces have demolished more than 1,500 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank since the start of the year, resulting in the displacement of over 3,600 Palestinians and affecting nearly 164,000 others, according to the United Nations.

Data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reveals that between 1 January and 29 November, Israeli forces destroyed 1,528 structures, including 700 inhabited homes, 118 uninhabited homes and 398 agricultural facilities.

The demolitions have primarily targeted vulnerable Palestinian communities, displacing 3,637 people and severely impacting 163,769 others. The most affected area was the Tulkarm Refugee Camp in the northern occupied West Bank where 171 structures were destroyed, followed by the Nur Shams Refugee Camp which witnessed 118 demolitions, Jenin Refugee Camp, Jericho and other parts of the West Bank.

The Israeli government justifies these demolitions by claiming the structures were built without permits, although obtaining such permits is nearly impossible for Palestinians under the occupation’s restrictive policies.


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Israeli demolition policies have escalated recently in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. They are intended to displace the Palestinians and expand illegal Jewish-only settlements amid the ongoing genocidal war against the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories.

It comes despite a landmark opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 19 July, which declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land unlawful and called for the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

READ: Israel demolishes last mosque in Bedouin village in Negev desert

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Thoughts of the Day 1 December 2024

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Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and the United Kingdom are actively participating in Israel’s genocides, war crimes, Neo-Fascism.

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Fascists Mussolini and Hitler salute Keir Starmer and the Labour Party

What can be done? Ideally, those responsible including of course Starmer and Lammy would be prosecuted, convicted and punished. It’s likely that the British police can start that process but I somehow doubt that it will happen. There’s little doubt that war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed: starvation, civilians including healthcare workers, journalists, aid workers are targeted, health facilities targeted, starvation, disease and forced displacements used as weapons of war. These are the crimes that German Nazi Fascists committed during WW2.

We shouldn’t allow normal functioning while our government is engaged in genocide. That would take commitment from many people. This is the correct course of course and our recent ancestors fought such Fascists and Fascism FFS.

Starmer and Lammy represent the Labour Party of course and act in the name of the Labour Party. There may be some leverage here. The Labour Party under Starmer is already hugely unpopular. It should be history now that it’s a Fascist Zionist party.

Vote For Genocide Vote Labour.
Vote For Genocide Vote Labour.

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UK’s David Lammy blasted for saying ‘there are no journalists in Gaza’

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Genocide denying UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy says that UK is suspending 30 of 350 arms licences to Israel. He also confirms the UK government's support for Israel's Gaza genocide and the UK government and military's active participation in genocide.
Genocide denying UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy says that UK is suspending 30 of 350 arms licences to Israel. He also confirms the UK government’s support for Israel’s Gaza genocide and the UK government and military’s active participation in genocide.

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Journalists around the world condemn the British foreign secretary for erasing the work and suffering of Palestinian journalists

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has been blasted for saying “there are no journalists in Gaza” at a meeting in parliament on Wednesday. 

Lammy was asked by fellow Labour MP Matthew Patrick at a House of Commons foreign affairs committee meeting about his assessment “of the nature of the conflict” in Gaza and “how that impinges on getting aid in”.

“As I said, there is now widespread looting,” Lammy said in his reply.

“There are no journalists in Gaza and there are no politicians such as me who are able to go to Gaza, so I am unable to verify who is behind the looting,” he added.

Journalists from around the world condemned the British foreign secretary for appearing to erase the work and suffering of Palestinian journalists – at least 127 of whom have been killed during the course of Israel’s war on Gaza, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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Despite Lammy’s suggestion that the British government does not know who is looting aid because “there are no journalists” in Gaza, both reporters and the United Nations have established that gangs are looting aid with “protection” from Israel’s military.

There have even been numerous reports that Israel has actively armed gangs in Gaza. Israel has also blocked aid from reaching the besieged enclave throughout much of the war.

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UK Labour Party Shadow Foreign Secretary repeatedly heckled at a speech to the Fabian Society over his and the Labour Party's support for and complicity in Israel's genocide of Gaza.
UK Labour Party Shadow Foreign Secretary repeatedly heckled at a speech to the Fabian Society over his and the Labour Party’s support for and complicity in Israel’s genocide of Gaza.
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Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpA

dizzy: Israel’s genocides should be regarded as a shared venture involving the United States, United Kingdom and Israel.

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