“The British government is in danger of breaking its own laws and also international laws.”
A sensible government would “preempt’ a court judgement requiring Britain to stop providing arms to Israel, says Sir John Deverell.
📻https://t.co/RAsVw6RRBj | #TimesRadio pic.twitter.com/OtDgHQVSaj
— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) August 19, 2024
There was definitely a lot of evidence that any weapons sent to Israel would be used to commit atrocities. It was actually impossible to believe that any weapons sent to Israel would not be used in atrocities, because all they do is atrocities.
There is very little evidence the Jews have killed many Hamas. But if they have killed a Hamas or two, they’ve done so while murdering many children and other innocents. For example, they will bomb a refugee camp and kill dozens and then claim there was one Hamas there. There is no evidence of it, but even if it were true, how many innocent people can you kill in order to kill one Hamas, according to British rules?
Claims of Palestinians being tortured, left untreated in hospital and unable to escape constant bombardment have been submitted to the high court in London by lawyers seeking an order preventing the UK government continuing to grant arms export licences to British companies selling arms to Israel.
The 14 witness statements covering more than 100 pages come from Palestinian and western medical doctors working in Gaza’s hospitals, as well as from ambulance drivers, civil defence department workers and aid workers.
The graphic evidence is designed to support a request for a court order that the UK government has acted irrationally in refusing to ban the sale of arms, arguing there was not a clear risk the weapons would be used to commit breaches of international humanitarian law. This is the statutory test set for the government to decide whether to grant arms export licences. The Labour government is reviewing the policy.
The signed testimony has been given by witnesses all identified to the court, but only two of them are being named by the Guardian due to the need to protect families in Gaza from potential retribution. The judicial review is due to be held between 8 and 10 October.
The case has been brought by an alliance of NGOs including Al-Haq, Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), Amnesty International, Oxfam and Human Rights Watch. It is the first attempt to put such graphic testimony of alleged Israeli war crimes in front of a British judge since Hamas launched its deadly attack on Israel on 7 October in which more than 1,100 Israelis were killed and 250 taken hostage.
The previous Conservative administration defended its decision to continue to grant licences, saying there was insufficient risk that UK weapons were being used in war crimes.
I have no idea how these laws work. I don’t really know what a war crime is. It all seems very arbitrary.
I think what anyone can say is that Israel is doing some ultra-gruesome shit, which no one with a conscience could possibly ever support.
We could also go into the fact that there is no explanation of how this benefits the UK. There isn’t even an explanation of how it benefits Israel, unless you add the stuff about how they are planning to coax the West into invading Iran.
📺🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israel has dropped more explosives on Gaza since 10/7 than were dropped on London, Dresden, Hiroshima & Nagasaki combined during ALL of WW2.
This is how psychotic the jewish terror colony is. You’re a special kind of idiot if you think it’s just about “getting kh amas.” pic.twitter.com/Yx0gms0eE3
— Sam Parker-ucas Gage🇺🇲 (@SamParkerSenate) August 15, 2024
TODAY: A UN delegation managed to reach northern Gaza for the first time
There is not a single building standing
It’s a wasteland of rubble and destruction
The Palestinians have suffered unimaginable horror
This couldn’t have happened without the support of America pic.twitter.com/CGkz0YtcE3
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) August 18, 2024