Ministers should face ICC probe over UK response to Gaza genocide – Corbyn
Ministers should face investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their response to Israel’s actions in Gaza, Jeremy Corbyn’s Gaza Tribunal has said.
The former Labour leader’s investigation into the UK response to the conflict has reported back after it held a series of hearings in September.
The tribunal was intended to “uncover the full scale of Britain’s complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide”, Mr Corbyn said in a foreword to its final report.
The report accuses the British Government of failing to prevent genocide in Gaza and claims the UK was complicit in Israel’s actions.
A UN Commission last year said Israel’s actions in Gaza had constituted a genocide.
At least 70,000 Palestinians have been killed since the conflict began but some experts believe the true death toll is much higher.
The tribunal calls for a full investigation by the ICC into Britain’s actions in response to the conflict, as well as an independent public inquiry into any co-operation between the UK and Israel since October 2023.
Sir Keir Starmer’s Government has faced criticism from some quarters for not doing more to dissociate itself from Israel as the conflict has ensued.
Mr Corbyn’s introduction to the tribunal’s final report said: “Today, schoolchildren are taught about history’s worst crimes against humanity.
“They are asked to reflect on how these crimes possibly could have occurred. And they learn the names of political figures that endorsed or enabled such atrocities.
“In the near future, our history books will shame those in our government who could have stopped the genocide in Gaza but facilitated it instead.
“This report will help cement the Government’s legacy as an active participant in one of the greatest crimes of our time.”
Support our Nation today
For the price of a cup of coffee a month you can help us create an independent, not-for-profit, national news service for the people of Wales, by the people of Wales.
How about a probe into his failure to do his taxpayer funded £145k per year job as Leader of the Opposition properly in 2016 that gave us Brexit, Boris and Trump. Gaza is just another consequence of Trump.
Gaza followed years of missiles shot at Israel from that benighted territory run by Hamas who are basically criminal gangsters that Al Capone would understand. The final trigger was the mass murder and rape of people of many nations not just Jews by the October 7 invasion. Legally Israel was entitled to go to war. Predictably Hamas would not surrender having spent years concealing military installations in civilian buildings like hospitals and schools. Inevitably the ordinary Palestinian people paid a high price for the resulting war (not genocide) sponsored by the Fascist Mullahs of Iran at the expense of ordinary… Read more »
The response was disproportionate. That would’ve been different under Hillary. And that’s Corbyn’s fault. It’s not a comment on the legitimacy of action in the face of an existential threat.
Corbyn has a long history of dallying with fringe terrorist organisations like Castro’s Cuba and the IRA. It is predictable that he would hop onto the bandwagon of the genocide criers misusing that important word to describe a legal but terrible war for which Hamas are as much to blame as anyone else. Sponsored by Iran of course. And indirectly and inadvertently subsidised by the EU and the UN who have poured money into Gaza to fill the bloated coffers of the gangster terrorists.