UK Officials Facing the Alleges of Complicity in War Crimes against Gaza
London, United Kingdom – Yet another criminal complaint has been made to the metropolitan police for trial regarding the possibility of British government officials’ involvement in aiding and abetting the intent to starve the Palestinians deliberately.
This development supports another plaint filed in January by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), which claimed that the politicians involved in committing what they claimed to be war crimes by Israel in the Gaza Strip are legally charged.
The chief monitor of the ICJP visited Kigali on May 17 to present the latest written complaint details to 22 people, among whom five are the topmost UK ministers. The ICJP for Independent Commission for Justice and Peace is a legal team of lawyers, politicians and members of academics based in New York who committed to supporting Palestinian rights; the ICJP submitted a 60-page complaint with eight hundred pages of appendices attached the 19 medical doctors who worked in the Gaza strip since October 7, 2023.
This complaint is undoubtedly one of the most detailed that has been filed to Scotland Yard over accusations of genocide of Palestinians by Israelis in Gaza, where over thirty-five thousand Palestinians have been killed. The conflict intensified more when Hamas, the rulers of Gaza, fired rockets into the southern part of Israel, killed one thousand one hundred and thirty-nine people and kidnapped many others.
The complaint alleges that the five British government ministers are guilty of the NZDOCA’s alleged crimes of aiding and abetting through military support and words of moral encouragement to the state of Israel. The Metropolitan Police are not naming these politicians to investigate the evidence. The complaint also includes specific Israeli politicians/military officials and ordinary British citizens who enlisted in the Israeli military.
In the ICJP’s latest report, they claim that Israel is deliberately inflicting grave suffering, and it uses starvation as a strategy of war. These actions are opposed to the law and are considered war crimes in the UK and according to the Rome Statute and Geneva Conventions.
Yes, in response to questions, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said that specialist officers are investigating the complaint. Currently, the force is conducting a scoping review to determine whether more action or an official investigation is needed. If a formal investigation is carried out, those accused of the act may be arrested and prosecuted.
The complaint to ICJP contains more horrific accounts of the human rights situation as affected by the blockade and siege of Gaza by Israel. Various health practitioners have expressed a severe scarcity of crucial needs like medicine, fuel, food and water, resulting in awful situations. One of the doctors said that as many as 90 per cent of patients were skeletal, and babies could not cry because they were severely malnourished.
Medical officers also complained of an inadequate supply of analgesics. One story described a young girl of 11 years admitted with fatal burns who was not given any pain relief towards the end because there was none. One news report shared the story of a seven-year-old child with explosives-related injuries who, after being screeched and could not administered pain relief, was gently sung to sleep by a doctor.
Tayab Ali, the director of the ICJP and the head of international law at Bindmans LLP said that collaboration exists in various forms, including providing political support, inciting people to commit crimes, or providing weapons.
The British government has been more or less an advocate of the state of Israel in the October 7 Hamas attack, supplying it with weapons as well as oral support. The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he supports Israel’s right to self-defence while at the same time appealing for a humanitarian cease-fire to offload humanitarian relief aid in Gaza.
Regarding the position in the ICJP criminal complaint, a spokesman of the Foreign Office said, “As the foreign secretary stated earlier, Israel is committed to responding to the promptings of international humanitarian law and can do this. Nevertheless, we remain apprehensive of the enormous suffering of the civilian population in Gaza. Our actions are guided by the advice we receive about the capability and willingness of Israel to adhere to international humanitarian law.”
