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The exhaustive 84-page brief submitted by South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Israel with genocide is hard to refute. Israel’s campaign of indiscriminate killing, wholesale destruction of infrastructure, including housing, hospitals and water treatment plants, along with its use of starvation as a weapon, accompanied by genocidal rhetoric from its political and military leaders who speak of destroying Gaza and ethnically cleansing the 2.3 million Palestinians, makes a strong case against Israel for genocide.”
This above was written by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist, Chris Hedges in an article titled, “The Case for Genocide. The International Court of Justice May be All that Stands Between the Palestinians in Gaza and Genocide.”
Chris, who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times concluded in the same article,”Genocide is not a political problem. It is a moral one. We cannot, no matter what the cost, support those who commit or are accomplices to genocide. Genocide is the crime of all crimes. It is the purest expression of evil. We must stand unequivocally with Palestinians and the jurists from South Africa. We must demand justice.”Source
War on Gaza: Complaint filed alleging UK ministers’ complicity in Israeli war crimes.
A UK-based advocacy group is demanding that justice thankfully and has filed a criminal complaint against senior UK politicians, including ministers, alleging their complicity in war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip. The Middle East Eye (MEE) has reported that the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) said on Tuesday that hard drives and evidence dossiers were handed over to the Metropolitan Police’s War Crimes Unit last week, this evidence also includes details about British nationals fighting in the Israeli army.
The Report from MEE Continues below:
Tayab Ali said each account submitted by the ICJP served as ‘a solemn reminder of the human cost of this conflict’ (Alex MacDonald/MEE)
“This is just the first tranche of our evidence and the first list of suspects… we will add further offences and further categories of suspects including commentators who continue to support war crimes,” Tayab Ali, director of the ICJP and head of international law at Bindmans LLP, told a press conference.
“Each account not only serves as evidence but also as a solemn reminder of the human cost of this conflict. We will accept nothing less than a thorough and impartial investigation into these allegations.”
The complaint, shared after a public request from the police for evidence of war crimes in Israel and Gaza, also implicates Israeli politicians and private British citizens, including some who travelled abroad to fight for the Israeli army. The Met has come under criticism from Conservative voices, including former prime minister Boris Johnson, who have suggested their call for evidence is a politicisation of the force.
Ali said on Tuesday that Johnson’s comments themselves amounted to unwelcome “political interference” in the work of the police. The police have defended their efforts saying its war crimes team is obliged, under the Rome Statute, to support any investigations opened by the International Criminal Court that could involve British subjects.
The 78-page ICJP complaint features photographic evidence as well as harrowing eyewitness accounts, including from British citizens who were either present in Gaza after 7 October or have family members there who have provided them with information and evidence. The ICJP said it has kept the names of the politicians and individuals confidential for legal reasons and as the police investigation proceeds.
One witness gave an account of his former primary school teacher who was killed alongside 20 relatives in their family home in northern Gaza, leaving no survivors.
Another reported that his friend’s brother, who is a doctor at Al Shifa Hospital, only learned that his wife and three children had died when he found their bodies in the hospital’s corridors.
A third told of his 91-year-old grandmother, suffering from dementia and largely bed-ridden, who was allegedly shot and killed by Israeli soldiers when they occupied the home where she was sheltering in Jabalia refugee camp.
The dossier also includes evidence supporting allegations that the Israeli army used white phosphorous against civilians in Gaza, contrary to international law.
Since the beginning of the war on 7 October – when Hamas killed around 1,140 people in an operation in southern Israel – at least 24,100 Palestinians have been killed, with at least 7,000 missing and more than 60,000 injured. The complaint argues that the named British ministers are responsible for aiding and abetting war crimes through their continued military support of Israel and their moral encouragement.
Given evidence that UK weapons and intelligence are used in operations that “fail to respect the principles of distinction and proportionality and target civilians”, the complaint says the police should further investigate the culpability of listed UK lawmakers.
‘We will accept nothing less than a thorough and impartial investigation into these allegations’
– Tayab Ali, ICJP director
The majority of those named in the complaint live in Israel, but ICJP says many are officials who travel frequently and has requested that the police monitor their entry into the UK. The filing of the complaint in the UK alleging complicity by British officials in Israeli war crimes comes after the International Court of Justice in The Hague began hearing a complaint brought by South Africa last week, accusing Israel of “genocidal conduct” in Gaza.
At Tuesday’s press conference, Haydee Dijkstal, head of international law at 33 Beford Row Chambers – who has been working on ICJP’s submission of evidence to Scotland Yard – said its complaint did not assert the crime of genocide but covered a wide range of alleged war crimes.
Dijkstal said: “The complaint that was submitted, there are different legal principles from what’s being addressed at the ICJ. A ruling from the ICJ wouldn’t impact it but we’d certainly analyse it.”
Speaking to Middle East Eye, she said that the ICJP would be continuing “conversations” with the police as they worked through the evidence submitted. “There isn’t a particular timeframe that is required, but I believe the ICJP hopes to continue the conversations with the police to provide more information as the ICJP investigation continues, and to answer any questions that the police might have as well as they’re beginning that investigation and analysis of all the information submitted,” she explained.
British support for Israel
The UK government has been a staunch supporter of Israel throughout the conflict and has resisted pressure to call for a ceasefire in the war. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in October he was “proud to stand with you in Israel’s darkest hour as your friend, we will stand with you in solidarity, we will stand with your people, and we want you to win”.
Similarly, then-Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said he wanted to make it “clear to our Israeli friends that we stand shoulder to shoulder with them in their self-defence” and has stated that “calls for a ceasefire in the abstract aren’t going to help the situation”. A Department for Business and Trade spokesperson told MEE that the UK “supports Israel’s legitimate right to defend itself and take action against terrorism, provided it is within the bounds of International Humanitarian Law”.
“All our export licences are kept under careful and continual review and we are able to amend, suspend or revoke extant licences, or refuse new licence applications, where they are inconsistent with the UK’s Strategic Export Licensing Criteria,” they said.
With its complaint, ICJP has requested that a referral is made to the Metropolitan Police’s war crimes team to conduct a scoping exercise. This will allow the unit to decide whether to proceed with an investigation. Dijkstal said the individuals named in the complaint had not been pre-emptively singled out and that it was led by the evidence.
“The process of submitting evidence and submitting a complaint to the war crimes unit at Scotland Yard is one that’s been around for a while… I think often times it’s not known publicly, because many times these complaints are submitted on a confidential basis,” she explained.
“But I do know that it is has been utilised in regards to other conflicts… complaints have been submitted in regards to Yemen, to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, so I do think it is a process that victims of war crimes look to and have historically engaged with in order to utilise [the] universal jurisdiction principle that’s available in the UK.”
A Metropolitan police spokesperson told Middle East Eye that specialist officers are currently assessing the information in such an exercise. “At this time, there is no UK-based investigation into this matter, or any other matters relating to this particular conflict,” the spokesperson said.
‘At this time, there is no UK-based investigation into this matter, or any other matters relating to this particular conflict’ – Metropolitan police spokesperson
Commander Dominic Murphy, who leads the Counter Terrorism Command which hosts the war crimes team, told MEE: “The ongoing conflict in the Middle East continues to impact communities in the UK and internationally, and we recognise the strength of feeling on all sides.”
“We remain focused on supporting victims and witnesses who report core international crimes, as well as supporting the UK families of those directly affected by the terrorist attacks in Israel on 7 October last year,” he said. “I also want to reassure the public that we have a very clear set of guidelines which we use when assessing all war crimes referrals made to us and we will ensure that these are followed here.”
The police also shared their website for members of the public who wish to report war crime-related matters. MEE also contacted the Home Office, but had received no response at time of publication. Source.
Report above from Middle East Eye.
WAR CRIMES by UK
ICJP External Chief Counsel Haydee Dijkstal explains the sources of law upon which the complaint to the Metropolitan Police was made. MET Police will be investigating Under Rome Statue
The United Kingdom signed the Rome Statute on the 30th of November 1998, and the ratification of the Rome Statute was deposited on October the 4th 2001.
UK Signed The Rome Statute in 1998
The States Parties to this Statute,
Conscious that all peoples are united by common bonds, their cultures pieced together in a shared heritage, and concerned that this delicate mosaic may be shattered at any time,
Mindful that during this century millions of children, women and men have been victims of unimaginable atrocities that deeply shock the conscience of humanity,
Recognizing that such grave crimes threaten the peace, security and well-being of the world,
Affirming that the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole must not go unpunished and that their effective prosecution must be ensured by taking measures at the national level and by enhancing international cooperation,
Determined to put an end to impunity for the perpetrators of these crimes and thus to contribute to the prevention of such crimes,
Recalling that it is the duty of every State to exercise its criminal jurisdiction over those responsible for international crimes,
Reaffirming the Purposes and Principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and in particular that all States shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations
Emphasizing in this connection that nothing in this Statute shall be taken as authorizing any State Party to intervene in an armed conflict or in the internal affairs of any State
Determined to these ends and for the sake of present and future generations, to establish an independent permanent International Criminal Court in relationship with the United Nations system, with jurisdiction over the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole
Emphasizing that the International Criminal Court established under this Statute shall be complementary to national criminal jurisdictions
Resolved to guarantee lasting respect for and the enforcement of international justice.
The full Rome Statute document can be read in the downloadable file below.
The Rome Statute
Clearly, our politicians have not adhered to the Rome Statute.
According to Chris Hedges “Over 23,700 Palestinians, including over 10,000 children, have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, when Hamas and other resistance fighters breached the security barriers around Gaza. Some 1,200 people were killed – there is strong evidence that some of the victims were killed by Israeli tank crews and helicopter pilots that intentionally targeted the some 200 hostages along with their captors.
Thousands more Palestinians are missing, presumed buried under the rubble. Israeli attacks have left over 60,000 Palestinians wounded and maimed, the majority of them women and children. Thousands more Palestinian civilians, including children, have been arrested, blindfolded, numbered, beaten, forced to strip to their underwear, loaded onto trucks and transported to unknown locations.”
Unbelievably, as we have seen above in the report from the Middle East Eye, UK politician, Cleverley argued that “calls for a ceasefire in the abstract aren’t going to help the situation” It certainly would help the situation for the innocent people in Gaza, but they obviously come way down the list of the career politicians priorities!
The UK politicians through their actions and inactions have allowed this abhorrent, barbaric, evil to continue. They have proven themselves to be full supporters of the attacks on innocent civilians and the blanket destruction of Gaza itself. We must remember, that these are the people who are meant to be representing the UK, yet the people of the UK have been watching this hell on earth play out in real time and cannot comprehend that our lily livered so called leaders have not demanded a cease fire.
As Chris Hedges says “we must demand justice” and that means now to fully support the ICJP in their criminal complaint.
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Hi Patricia,
Another interesting article.
I would like to know, how many of our politicians, have dual passports with Israel.
Also how many are ‘ Friends of Israel’ and paid up members.
When I asked my MP in a telephone interview, he could not remember.
Thank you Dave.
I tried to find the answer to that, but I couldn’t find it.
Did see this though from 2021 – A third of the members of the British cabinet, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have been funded by Israel or pro-Israel lobby groups, Declassified UK has revealed. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210524-investigation-finds-33-of-uk-cabinet-members-funded-by-pro-israel-groups/
Good for you asking your MP, perhaps he could find out for you and not rely on memory.
” British MPs have been courted in a number of ways including trips to Israel funded by pro-Israel groups. Johnson reportedly went on a five-day trip to the occupation state in November 2004, three years after he first entered parliament. It was jointly funded by the Israeli government and Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), a powerful Westminster lobby group which does not disclose its funders but has claimed 80 percent of Conservative MPs are members.”
Same article as above Dave.
Hi Patricia,
Thank you for that information.
Our politicians are just bought and paid for.
Not really OUR Politicians, Politicians for Israel.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240122-cnn-uncovers-israeli-armys-desecration-of-gaza-cemeteries/
This is what the Israeli army think of cemeteries with Palestinian bodies in.
We must learn the difference between a man and “hue-man”, transliterated as “human”. A man is a living, breathing, unique being with a unique genotype, physical substance, immense energy, and inseparable divinity, including inseparable “unalienable” rights bequeathed by Nature. It may come as a surprise, but living men and women cannot give away or abrogate or change their natural rights. We are what we are. We cannot escape our Natural rights, and they cannot be bought, bartered, sold, or given away, no matter how ardently commercial interests wish otherwise. The first “hue-mans” were thought to be the placenta and afterbirth materials. It was a dark and superstitious time, when ignorance and fear conspired to create a belief that these “monsters” that expired shortly after the birth of a living baby were some other kind of “men” — existing as a kind or “color” of man: Hue-mans. Out of this dismal and ignorant belief the idea of “human creatures” existing apart from mankind was born, and so also the idea of “subhumans” was born, with each category being open to interpretation and prejudice. In the 1450s, the Roman Catholic Pope declared Saracens to be subhumans, and to be subject to “eternal enslavement”. As a result, the Roman Catholics like the Ancient Romans before them, accepted slavery for themselves and everyone else. You reap what you sow. If you sow enslavement, guess what? The same system you use to enslave other men can be, and will be used, to enslave you.
https://annavonreitz.com/manvhuman2.pdf
A few years ago, possibly only two, I heard an interview on the Today programme with a Lord. He was asked if he thought some Bill would get passed. He said he thought not and when asked why not, he said that it was Hanuka (spelling?) and too many members of the House Of Shame were in their Tel Aviv homes and so wouldn’t be voting. The laws of this country affected by events in Tel Aviv.
In the US – “Consider, for example, the leading figures in our current Biden Administration, who are playing a crucial role in determining the future of our own country and the rest of the world
…
President Joe Biden (Jewish in-laws)
Vice-President Kamala Harris (Jewish spouse)
Chief of Staff Jeff Zients (Jewish), replacing Ron Klain (Jewish, Harvard)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken (Jewish, Harvard)
Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen (Jewish, Yale)
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III (Black)
Attorney General Merrick Garland (Jewish, Harvard)
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (White Gentile, Yale)
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines (Jewish)
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas (Jewish)
from – https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/01/17/captive-nation-america/
Sorry, by the House Of S h a m e I mean the Lords.
I cannot begin to know what pain the families of Gaz are experiencing when I see the news and the cruel destruction caused by Israel I cannot but shed tears of grief for them. !,139 Israelis killed I believe were soldiers on October the 7th? and in return Israel kills 24,000+ with 6,000 children as well decimated. Buildings smashed, infrastructure and roads the same. The people have no water, toilet facilities, no food to speak of no warmth or shelter and constant bombing and all that grief to carry! That poor doctor in Al Shifa Hospital who lost his wife and 3 children and only found out when he found their bodies. My heart goes out to the poor man. The cruelty here has got to be awarded the top prize of the last 75 years of Israeli oppression and humiliation. Are you human beings or unfeeling robots? Please stop all this crulty enough happened weeks and weeks ago and maybe 75 years ago. Remember how it felt in the holocaust and feel for these people, please?
I can’t imagine that pain Jacqui, it is just horrendous.
I think it is really telling and very worrying that the so-called leaders can stand back and watch it all happen, they are inhumane psychopaths.
Well, so here is the pot calling the kettle black. South Africa is no clean au contraire they have indulged in heinous activity Poverty large and wide, not safe to be out at night. Terrorism of white farmers being chased off their land. People have to build high fences round their houses and sleep with a gun in case of invasion by whomsoever! South Africa is a wannabe and trying to make a name for itself! This is why white South Africans have left the Country and ver lucky if they can get their money out!
“South Africa” is generalising don’t you think? and I very much doubt they have to “make a name for themselves”
The African National Congress have always stood in solidarity with the Palestinians particularly as Nelson Mandela had said in 1997 “our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”
What is your issue with a group of people doing their utmost to stop the genocide?
Why wouldn’t they they?
They’re ethnically cleansing South Africa of its white farmers, and new political parties are openly declaring that they intend to kill more…
“One Country Stood Up for Palestine”.
“South Africa is not a rich country like other Arab nations. We don’t have million Dollar Empires, we’re not built on fuel that can supply the whole world. Our rulers are not Muslims, and they’re not Arab. So let it go down in the books of history that while the Arab leaders sat on their economical thrones of wealth as silent pawns of a Western chess game while their brothers, sisters and children were MASSACRED, South Africa had more morality and humanity than them. Money means nothing. This country will forever have my love and respect above others. Naledi Pandor.”
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/01/16/one-country-stood-up-for-palestine/
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Whatever shenanigans, hijinks & reverse psychology gambits that the Nazi Schwab, his villainaire WEF mob & the woke left cohort of utter nitwits are “trying to pull off” in this latest mis/dis informmation distraction against Israel, I am not swallowing it whole. They can all Go to Hell and take Gaza & the Palestinians with them. The greater World & myself have had quite enough of the lot of them: rabblerousers, crooks, thieves & mass murderers 🖕😠
The difference between Israelis and Palestinians is: Israelis are worth something as human beings.
How nice you are!
I keep vile comments like this on here as they help others to see just how utterly nasty and irrational the pro genocide folk are.
You should be ashamed, you won’t be, but you definitely should be.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240122-cnn-uncovers-israeli-armys-desecration-of-gaza-cemeteries/
Hi Donita Forrest, are you sure about what you say.
That is the sort of hatred Israelis (not all) have shown to Palestinians for decades and why they have to fight to defend themselves.
“Israeli HQ ordered troops to shoot Israeli captives on 7 October”
The military “instructed all its fighting units to perform the Hannibal Directive in practice, although it did so without stating that name explicitly,” Israeli journalists revealed last weekend.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-hq-ordered-troops-shoot-israeli-captives-7-october
“Pure evil: Israeli lawmaker calls for burning Gaza to the ground”
https://evil.news/2024-01-17-israeli-lawmaker-calls-for-burning-gaza-ground.html
This is absolutely delusional and ridiculous pro-terrorist claims and shows an abysmally poor degree of understanding Islamic extremism. I suggest Patricia looks through Palwatch and MEMRITV for a greater reality check and see the terrorist training camps they run in Palestine.
First of all, Palestinians train children into h_tred and terrorism from toddler age. The biggest pride to a Palestinian parent, is to find a way to have their children killed for Allah, whether they stage it themselves or strategically place them in a way that to pin Israel to it. They are rewarded a lifelong pension, an apartment, honors and awards for this illustrious act and breed babies solely for this reason, which is well documented and widely known in the region.
Second, “Palestinians” as they are known today have zero nativity to Palestine but are Egyptians and Saudis who poured into Israel in flash mobs to eth_nically cleanse the Jews and Christians in the 1940s. They began to call themselves Palestinians in 1964 in a warcrime propaganda strategy created by the PLO. There are video statements and historic statements by both Hamas and PLO to verify the fact that Palestinians are a completely artificially created people, merely used as an excuse for terrorism. They’re neither occupied nor under ‘apartheid’ but are recruited, just like ISIS recruited people from around the world to build their Caliphate society.
Hi TSmith,
The Palestinians have no Army, no Navy, and no Air force.
Where do you get your information from, out of the gutter.
Israel just breeds Psychopaths, and buys politicians in other countries.
When Palestine was part of that Caliphate society that you mention, Jews made up only three per cent of the population.
When Palestine was part of that Caliphate society that you mention, Jew_s made up only three per cent of the population.
“Israeli HQ ordered troops to shoot Israeli captives on 7 October”
The military “instructed all its fighting units to perform the Hannibal Directive in practice, although it did so without stating that name explicitly,” Israeli journalists revealed last weekend.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-hq-ordered-troops-shoot-israeli-captives-7-october
Of course you can peddle completely distorted narratives without even an inkling of factual knowledge about the conflict if you add filters on your comment section that requires your approval, while complaining that you are being defunded and banned…
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240122-cnn-uncovers-israeli-armys-desecration-of-gaza-cemeteries/
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“UK’s chief rabbi gives his blessing to war crimes in Gaza” – Ephraim Mirvis.
https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/01/19/uks-chief-rabbi-gives-his-blessing-to-war-crimes-in-gaza/12
“Israeli HQ ordered troops to shoot Israeli captives on 7 October”
The military “instructed all its fighting units to perform the Hannibal Directive in practice, although it did so without stating that name explicitly,” Israeli journalists revealed last weekend.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-hq-ordered-troops-shoot-israeli-captives-7-october
“Pure evil: Israeli lawmaker calls for burning Gaza to the ground”
https://evil.news/2024-01-17-israeli-lawmaker-calls-for-burning-gaza-ground.html