UK military support to Israel ‘could be breach of international law’

A Palestinian solidarity group in Britain has accused the UK government of potential complicity in acts of genocide by Israel in Gaza.
The report from the British Palestine Committee (BPC) outlines the UK's relationship with Israel since the war in Gaza began.
Al Jazeera’s Willem Marx reports from London, UK.
Sam Perlo-Freeman is Research Coordinator at Campaign Against the Arms Trade and Fellow at World Peace Foundation. He says the British government's reluctance to provide information on surveillance flights over Gaza isn't surprising.
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[@rafthejaf8789]

All carefully covered up by the BBC.

[@infinitesolutions2602]

Agree

[@user-tm3ec8yu4j]

Sure

[@nwankwosampson-xk3jc]

Al Jazeera jihadists 😂

[@DeskinantiEndahPertiwi]

BBC = B*llsh*t bullsh*t centre

[@azalia423]

sio ist

[@AshrafAhmed-n4b]

UK is completely complicit. 😢

[@wor53lg50]

Blame suqadiq khan and lord Ali and bubba gump they call the shots..oh you thought Pakistan was your brothers, lol, money talks and BS walks here..

[@victoria9590]

Cannot wait to see Starmer and Lammy in the Hague because if they get away with genocide abroad next they will bring it home

[@thesaltyshakerLoL]

yet moozlims live there. typical islamic hypocrisy

[@thesaltyshakerLoL]

sucking on government aid as a "refugee" while chanting for intifada on the streets of London. crazy right? allah the greatest deceiver!

[@ts4095]

UK is the evil bstrd father of israhell

[@ximivogue1234p]

Shame on UK govt and america govt

[@wor53lg50]

Shame on all abrools..for not going to aid the poor pallys cause ...

[@kingghost0117]

Shame on you😂

[@chadskogfeldt8413]

Why they are rescuing the hostages which were literally taken by Palestinian terrorists

[@RVPVNT]

Israel doesn't occupy the land. They OWN it. Genesis 15:18-21

[@discontentedcitizan6046]

@@sayithowitis1 Toxic Tice and his missus have left to live in Dubai lol we all know its a tax dodging move , good riddance

[@wojtekkowalski8983]

There is no doubt UK is complicit in this genocide, same the US. Why is this even being debated?

[@wor53lg50]

Shut it yer rag heed loving polack, why dont you take a hered of em to your country..

[@southtechie]

Who was complicit in Oct 7 genocide?

[@wojtekkowalski8983]

@@southtechie the israhelli government. Oppressing Palestinians since before the foundation of israhell gave them such result. Show me one ethnic group or nation that will be quite and take all abuse and mistreatment. There is none! People will fight for their dignity and freedom, doesn't matter where they from. Fascist zionists brought this on themselves.

[@crimeinfoja7184]

@@southtechievery good question

[@wojtekkowalski8983]

Fascist zionists. They have been oppressing Palestinians since before the foundation of israhell. Show me one ethnic group or nation that is going to quietly take abuse and mistreatment. There is none. israhell did get what they worked for since decades.

[@SadaK-tr6dm]

Ceasefire is not the end, it is the beginning. World will not stop till there is - No racial supremacy - No apartheid - No occupation of Palestine - No weapons to TZS. BDS.

[@annenunney9907]

Well said

[@kingghost0117]

L Gaza is gone

[@TheBadgerr]

@@kingghost0117its the People and the Land that make Gaza. Not the houses. Cockroach

[@victotetim1850]

​@@annenunney9907 Go pray for your family

[@RVPVNT]

Yip they should go back to Arab countries where they came from

[@moldymush]

Shame on Sunak and Starmer

[@victoria9590]

Starmer and Lammy should face the consequences because if they get away with genocide abroad next they will bring it home

[@infinitesolutions2602]

Definitely

[@namolbaltoaca4808]

So, to understand if a terrorsit that killed your family and your whole town tells you you killed 100000 people, you believe him? If ISrael wanted genocide and murder the innocents, there wouldn't be to many to speak of, now isn't it'? Yet they are by millions, so where is the genocide? And where is the proof that 45.000 people died by the hands of Israel? With terrorist launching missels at Insrael from infront of hospitals, and bombing their own people that try to run,because they know there will be nothing left of them if people get out, and all of this after mass murdering over 1500 innocent people in Israel and party afterwords, you got to be not only without morals or blind, but stupid too...

[@Jon962-h4i]

What genocide? $0k dead, half of whom are humus and the population remains in Gaza. By the very definition, this isn't a genocide.

[@Saidshuaili]

The British mandate of Palestine 1921 and Haganah forces committed injustices against Palestinian people for 27 years. Killing and migrating thousands of Palestinian people to establish the Palestine occupation. The British army left Palestine 1948 when UN 1948 approved the Palestine occupation.

[@wojtekkowalski8983]

Around 750 000 Palestinians have been displaced to be more specific. Free Palestine!

[@Saidshuaili]

Today, more than ten million Palestinian exiled who want to return to Palestine.

[@wor53lg50]

Yeah, ok we believe you honest, lol..

[@doggieclaude]

I don't disagree overall, but the British left due to Israeli terrorist attacks, which killed British policemen, servicemen and civilians such as post office staff. Sergeant's Affair and King David Hotel bombing as examples. British people despised Israel and Queen Elizabeth never visited Israel in her whole life, because they murdered British people, in horrible ways. That was the bottom line reason Britain left, although I'm not saying that was the right thing to do.

[@danielelosurdo7372]

british mandate, 😂 gods mandate is the land of israel will always be given ti the jews by promise

[@NazmulHasan-dj5yb]

So much for mother of democracy. Clearly aiding genocide and violeting international law at the same time. Criminals must face the justice of international law.

[@markhill3858]

did you mean Athens?

[@namolbaltoaca4808]

Where is the genocide? Based on what do you call it a genocide, do you know what a genocide is? Even if the numbers of innocent deaths were true, which they aren't, it could still not be called genocide. Funny enough people like you deny real genocide happening in germany against Jews or in turkey against armenians. Where the dictators of the times, actually triend to kill a population if not more then one. 17 million pople were killed in war crimes, among them 6 million jewish people. Learn about genocide and what it means. IF Israel would have want genocide, all they would have to do is to launch a night of fire against gaza and nobody would have survived. Get your facts straight and stop spreading terrorist propaganda and lies.

[@markhill3858]

@ the numbers are true, underestimated in fact. And not only could this be called a genocide, it IS called a genocide by the international courts. Accusing anyone who says so .. of supporting some extinct faction from FKN WW2! is beyond pathetic it should be a crime .. and Terrorism .. is the use of force on civilians for political objectives. Isreal is the BIGGEST TERRORIST OF OUR TIMES!

[@markhill3858]

@ It is called a genocide by the international courts. Weirdly, not by the perpetrator and its supporters :) how strange!

[@markhill3858]

@ If isreal have proven any one thing .. its that dropping 4 hiroshimas on a tiny strip of land in 15 months .. has not worked unless they wanted to make hms stronger and has made Isreal hated by the entire planet.

[@zink6379]

I live in the UK, i agree that our government is absolutely complict and so is our media. The only way to learn anything true about this conflict is through independent journalism and foreign news outlets. The vast majority of the general public are completely unaware of the truth of this awful genocide and dont care to do any research that contradicts what the news is telling the

[@AnthonyD-yy2in]

If you are not British by ancestry, then show your support by moving on from that racist country.

[@doggieclaude]

I'm British too, and you are right.

[@yorygibson-rc1lw]

In Britain 2 kid starver is arresting independent journalists and climate change actists on terrorism charges 😢

[@Sheena-k8w]

I'm the same come from Scotland and absolutely disgusted with the media and government black out in all four of our countries in U.K that hardly show genocide of Palestinians. For goodness sake half the population are children meanwhile they are also doing nothing of grooming gangs which means mass rape that are raping drugging assaulting beating kids. My heart breaks for the children in Gaza and in our homelands cause they are allowing Pedos and killers in Power and they are protecting these low level gang rapist killers, when in the year 2025 it should be protecting the victims survivors, innocent children at all costs. I don't trust not one individual or person in authority. Anywhere in the world l think they are all total psychopaths and utterly insane and should undorgoe psychic evaluation cause nobody in authority in 15 months actually did anything for Palestine it was the 8 billion souls not in authority that proved their humanity by standing for Palestine against holocaust genocide oligarchy tyranny treason apartheid and colonialism that everyone could march to Hague today as it was first televised genocide so we could all be witnesses for Palestine against the unholy liars who are ashkeNAZI khZarIONISTS that come from Khazaria and a DNA test on all laraelis would prove that meaning they purposely murdered these Arabs just for their gas Oli and land grab to steal a land by illegal occupation that the I.C.J states they are illegal and must leave Gaza and Golan Heights in Syria and West Bank and face up to their crimes at Nuremberg part 2.

[@philgriffin8687]

@@doggieclaude Same and its disgusting what our gov' and media have been up to.

[@paulewing232]

Starmer should have a warrant in the post from the ICC. Free Palestine.

[@SadaK-tr6dm]

Geno Joe and Secretary of Genocide too.

[@annenunney9907]

Absolutely

[@RVPVNT]

Israel doesn't occupy the land. They OWN it. Genesis 15:18-21

[@Badgerbeard]

@@RVPVNT I think the ICJ judgement was clear and perhaps has more legal relevance.

[@noecadavona1862]

UK should sanctioned the ICC. 😂

[@MsMayaAkter-si5bz]

Uk is completely complicit.😢

[@infinitesolutions2602]

Absolutely

[@theodor-v2b]

like France.

[@cornelius9611]

Next time don't start a war that you cannot finish. War is not a chocolate drink.

[@namolbaltoaca4808]

@@cornelius9611 well, islam always managed to manipulate media to be on their side while killing and destroying other nations that took them in. Look at Lebanon, Bosina, Serbia, and very recently, germany... you'll see the same patern everywhere. They go, wage war, then they get patriotic, then they cry about being killed. What puzzles me is how this massive mass-murder attack against Israel innocent people and the party afterwords, in gaza, lebanon and probably other arabic contries gets fully ignored by this "moral army" of commenters talking here about "genocide" while not understanding what genocide actually means. And all of this based on infromation released by the very terrorist group that attaked israel and used their own people as human shields in the war afterwords, yeah...the moral-ground of some people is near to 0

[@reasontruthandlogic]

@@theodor-v2b And of course the USA and most of the USA-obedient EU.

[@jeremycox6471]

You know how you can tell when a politician is lying? Their gums are bumping.

[@wojtekkowalski8983]

I always thought a politician is only lying when taking a breath.

[@namolbaltoaca4808]

yeah, and mass-media does not?🤐

[@adams9454]

Uk 🇬🇧 definitely complicit

[@RVPVNT]

Your mom is illicit

[@Adriano12358]

complicit arbs illegally occupy north africa

[@MomoSarjoo-gs5zk]

I have no doubt, British is already complicity of Israel Gaza war

[@jason-s8c]

Brit usa germany

[@Csi864]

Real face of uk 🇬🇧 army 😢

[@annenunney9907]

They do not need to hide in Tunnels Cameron was not even a MP when he became the Foreign Secretary like to know what that was all about

[@RVPVNT]

The uk ain’t even started yet, wait till they do. Fvck u

[@Jon962-h4i]

How the British army gets dragged into your argument is beyond me😂

[@mikextase]

Unfortunately, we all know that absolutely nothing will happen, and absolutely no one will be held accountable.

[@cornelius9611]

Nothing will happen because Hamas made a stupid mistake by starting a genocidal war that they cannot finish

[@laraibansari5997]

IT'S HIGH TIME PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD SHOULD SHOW THEM THAT THERE ARE SOME REALLY BAD CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS

[@RVPVNT]

Israel doesn't occupy the land. They OWN it. Genesis 15:18-21

[@Jon962-h4i]

LIKE HUMUS DID ON OCTOBER 7?

[@noecadavona1862]

The rest of the world should defund UNRWA as what the US did.😂

[@reasontruthandlogic]

@@RVPVNT Wake up. Genesis is a fairy story.

[@reasontruthandlogic]

Careful what you wish for. The consequence of protesting against genocide in the UK, US or Germany is increasingly likely to be locked up.

[@daviddyball4161]

The UK is definitely complicit,not just starmer,Sunak too,you can add the majority mps from both of the main parties,they need to be locked up

[@Jon962-h4i]

Not leaving anytime soon though, are you?

[@naziracassim1717]

Britaim had no right to give Palestine to zionist...

[@reasontruthandlogic]

Britain probably gave itself the right. That is the way rights law works.

[@dsadunnodudeish4535]

It was the will of Allah

[@mohammadmatin8030]

Could be!!! They don’t believe in their own laws but they believe to be complicit.

[@petermcculloch4933]

What else would you expect from the U.K.?Here in Australia they established a cruel and sadistic penal colony, set up a native police force which eliminated an estimated seventy thousand indigenous people and tested nuclear explosions without bothering to remove the natives who lived on the site.

[@Jon962-h4i]

And now you live in one of the most vibrant democracies in the world. So much for gratitude.

[@akterhossain8139]

The Arms trade is a source of income. War is blessings for the traders. The civilised nations do no care in which purpose the arms will be used. Violation is accepted here question is who will take action?

[@pangkiatloh4555]

It is not " Could be breach" but it is " Already breach" .🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸The Britishs stole the Palestine from the Palestinians & gave it to the Israel Zionists.--PROF. AVI SHLAIM🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭

[@vispillay1365]

All non-Moslems are big rogues...they are always stealing.....but Allah's puppets are saints...they are the most loving, caring, non-violent, innocent, non-lying IDIOTS🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@wor53lg50]

You mean the British conquered the land from Arab Turk imperial colonialists...

[@wojtekkowalski8983]

That's true unfortunately. Britain promised both jews and Palestinians the same land during WW1. Then in accordance to British customs they stabbed one side (Palestinians) in the back.

[@janetyrrell7535]

@@sayithowitis1Whatever, it was not their land to conquer!

[@janetyrrell7535]

@@wojtekkowalski8983True

[@NusratHashmi-h6k]

Should take uk government to court

[@Rather-kicer]

Arab countries who betrayed Palestinian in 2020 by signing Abraham accords are also complict in genocide.

[@chrism7249]

UK is finished, we do whatever anybody with money says

[@nydabeats]

"international law"... what a joke.

[@Adriano12358]

qatari supporters of hummus fanatics care about laws 😆😅😂🤣

[@ryanfriday7923]

Israel is not a NATO member no need to help Israel

[@madeinengland9488]

The uk and Isreal have a 10 year defence and trade pact that was signed in 2021 so that’s why we would definitely get involved. I dunno about the yanks though.

[@thetraveller1612]

Why on earth would the UK sign up to a 'defence agreement' with Israel?

[@doggieclaude]

@@thetraveller1612 bribery or blackmail?

[@nwankwosampson-xk3jc]

Because you are nobody to object that 😂​@@thetraveller1612

[@dsadunnodudeish4535]

​@@thetraveller1612 Because Israel makes world class weapons,unlike Arabs

[@adamulabaran953]

Bird of the same feather

[@Autumnsunlight]

The West have been complicit since I lived there in 1985 and before that , after living there for a period of time in the Golan, I soon changed my stance towards Israel, but you’ll never see it reported in the western world until now.

[@adeebabdulsalam2259]

Put Rishi Sunak in Jail

[@Aden288]

His family have a 1.5 B dollar licence to take natural gas and oil from Gaza. He needed Ps to expire in order to access it.

[@AliZzzzzzzz-f3]

May Allah bless everyone who expressed their solidarity with the oppressed Ameen

[@tamirkeren6750]

Starting a war against someone stronger then you is stupid and has bad consequences.

[@SpecialSoma]

Aww the delusion is strong with this one. Imagine thinking you’re the “stronger” side when you need 2 empires to back you with everything...against a group of orphans inside a open air prison.

[@azalia423]

We need to consider this for the US

[@hassandasu]

UK tax payer to stay in UK

[@madeinengland9488]

Shut it hassan the British public will make that decision and the majority will support it 👍

[@Adriano12358]

hassans and abduls paying uk taxes? 😆😅😂🤣

[@gevaeilan3132]

What a disaster hamas and Qatar brought on them 😢

[@salvatori307]

What a disaster is Mileikowsky for a few cigars War Criminal

[@SakiHashi]

Neither the UK nor the US violated international these countries above the law. Both allowed Natanyahu to do everything's he wanted during the Gaza war

[@DabuoBagnabayi]

There's nothing like international law. A law without enforcement is useless

[@mikerobinson3695]

No Doubt..........

[@dondee7123]

This is excellent journalism to broadcast real actions of those fighting for freedom

[@naziracassim1717]

Must be charged.

[@sarifffakun1021]

One thing the world failed to understand that international law does not apply to those who wrote it.

[@SadaK-tr6dm]

Imperial yoke - US, UK and TZS regimes.

[@ramho786]

And they talk about humanity and peace!

[@psvhangoveral]

Starmer must be held accountable.

[@DUBSTEP_KUSH305]

Get em ICC icj

[@reasontruthandlogic]

Unfortunately both the ICJ and ICC are infested with USA yes people. The recent new head of the ICJ is a known Zionist!

[@simonearber5445]

Yes UK are absolutely complicit 😢 🤢😢 and not just through providing weapons, there are several way,s in which they have aided Isreal in this atrocity!!!!

[@TheVirtualOrigin]

When are news stations going to be accurate with their language "IS A BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW" - period....

[@Odin-the-Chug]

We Americans are banding together to stop our government from giving Israel 1 more penny

[@SadaK-tr6dm]

👍

[@eastafrica1020]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Trump just signed an EO to keep on funding Israel. You should wake up fool.

[@nwankwosampson-xk3jc]

Immigrants in America you mean 😂

[@SadaK-tr6dm]

@@nwankwosampson-xk3jc All Americans except the child killer supporters.

[@Anon-lz1qy]

It does breach international law, but they are above the law.

[@JhoneSmith-h3c]

Does that breached international law in the UK should be held responsible and should go to prison free Palestine 🙏

[@gtigrl7522]

We will never forget and we will never forgive for this.

[@namolbaltoaca4808]

Oh, you thought mass-murdering of innocents can be celebrated on your streets without consequances? Your live to hate and hate for living. And this is the outcome.

[@nwankwosampson-xk3jc]

Neither will Israel

[@gtigrl7522]

@nwankwosampson-xk3jc Good we won't let them forget it!

[@gevaeilan3132]

😂😂😂😂they will leave in tents for decades 😂😂😂

[@Sumo1310]

It has been breach and breach already. Don't be hesitant call a cat a cat!!!

[@TonnyTK100]

The UK should be ashamed

[@nwankwosampson-xk3jc]

Foolishness is when you think that people shouldn't fight its interest but yours

[@gevaeilan3132]

Thank you u.k❤❤❤❤❤

[@terrencewijeratne6197]

uk is complicit for the past 80 years. they stated this needless carnage!!!! stay blessed all.

[@mdj9765]

The only action against the government that will be respected is that taken through the U.K. courts.....

[@reasontruthandlogic]

And that will never happen.

[@Waseem_Amin]

Its not could be. It is

[@atiqueullah3329]

Hai, Allah after crying nearly 300 years,you Excuses Adam Alaihe Salam We don't have hayet 300 years..Ya Aziz ya zabbar ya Karim ya sattar ya rahaman ya rahim AMEEN ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[@AliZzzzzzzz-f3]

May Allah Free Palestine and everybody who has been suffering from an ongoing war in their home country Ameen

[@asyamans2085]

UK, Germany and others are absolutely complicit

[@nwankwosampson-xk3jc]

So what are you going to do now?

[@mebdoc]

Any update on ICJ proceedings ?

[@magansingodia8511]

Thank 'Declassified' for their investigation.

[@haris4564]

That video is nothing than truth

[@AlbertDula-s1o]

CRUSADERS

[@southtechie]

against islamists

[@wor53lg50]

Dues vult if it needs to be.. Especially if innocents get hurt...

[@KosiKhalid]

Joke😂😂😂😂 Thought UN accused them 😂😂

[@AGirlyReader]

Ofc they did, we have known from day one. This isnt news

[@mohamedfazazi8315]

Justice

[@Aggj124]

Bravo people free Palestine

[@Adriano12358]

😆😅😂🤣

[@gevaeilan3132]

Qatar should pay reparations for all the damage caused by the war since they funded and supported hamas terorists

[@salvatori307]

Alice In Wunderland

[@hosain77]

Israel, USA, Britain and other associates must be brought under Justice.

[@ecchiRhino99]

the Muslim world think he is the international law

[@santichatterjee7284]

Especially for a country which boasts of always doing the lawful thing

[@adilalukac3696]

💔😭😭😭😭🙏🏻🇵🇸🙏🏻🇵🇸🙏🏻🇵🇸🙏🏻🇵🇸

[@AWalkOnDirt]

This is why the US should never join international legalistic associations allowing these associations to set definitions and parameters.

[@thor.halsli]

Isn't kidnaping breach of international law?

[@gevaeilan3132]

Sinuwar the destroyer of gaza😂😂😂

[@Autumnsunlight]

Explain the deaths of 6000 Palestinians in 2018 and 1000s before that?

[@malcolmodoy2651]

Yet Hamas not only wanted this war, they started it

[@Autumnsunlight]

Explain the 6000 Palestinians that died in 2018?

[@oda4766]

Explain the 76 years of brutal occupation ? Y'all white supremacist colonizers will find any excuses to justify this action.

[@fazorator]

@@Autumnsunlight During the Gaza War from December 27, 2008, to January 18, 2009, approximately 1,166 to 1,417 Palestinians lost their lives , 5 sec search.

[@Abdirizak-z5f]

Free UK from Isreal Free British Royal Family from Isreal

[@irfansatrio4621]

Poor children and babies ❤️🇵🇸🙁😥 Gaza old 1722

[@prototype21]

"we don't know what was on those flights" okay, back to drinking tea and enjoying the day.

[@viewpoint1242]

😢😢

[@santichatterjee7284]

Shameful

[@AliZzzzzzzz-f3]

May الله protect you May الله guide you May الله grant you Jannah May الله strengthen your Iman May الله accept all your duas May الله bless you

[@Adriano12358]

Ok but qatari support of hummus fanatics is not 😆😅😂🤣

[@Aditya-f8t5z]

🙏

[@irfansatrio4621]

Why don't love gaza old 1722 👼🕊️🇵🇸🙁 Poor children,babies, women and man life 😓😓😓

[@Jon962-h4i]

You really are clutching at straws Al Jazeera. Knowing that your funding comes from Qatar, an ally of the UK, do you really want to go there?

[@dadaramakrishna]

All governments involved or supporting the Genocide in Gaza must be brought to Justice.

[@obtuse1291]

UK only being "accused" of complicity? I would have thought there was little need for the "allegedly" language this time around. 😂

[@DeVerkeerdeVrouw]

And all country's supporting baby KIPNAPPING not for court?

[@RVPVNT]

Israel doesn't occupy the land. They OWN it. Genesis 15:18-21

[@MeandI007-i4v]

Evedince on Truth and Reconciliation Commission between Palastine and israel to be held in Qatar

[@SANJIBBISWAS-d6c]

WE ARE PROUD OF AMERICA AND UK FOR SUPPORTING THE MIGHTY ISRAEL

[@israrahmed383]

Accused???

[@NigelQuartey-wi9dq]

International man-made laws? Wait until they are brought before their higher selves - to face God's laws!! Love and light Higher Self ❤❤❤

[@john-fr5yd]

Says aljazeera CEO of hamas

[@Vorname_Nachnahme]

Investigate the German *_Annalena Baerbock._*