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British legislators call for public inquiry on UK’s role in Gaza war

Seven legislators including Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the Labour Party, and Carla Denyer, the co-leader of the Green Party, are demanding “an independent, public inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s military assault in Gaza”.

In an op-ed in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, the parliamentarians noted how an inquiry into the country’s conduct during the Iraq war found “serious failings in the British government, which ignored the warnings of millions of ordinary people over its disastrous decision to go to war”.

History is repeating itself, they wrote.

The UK has “played a highly influential role in Israel’s military operations, including the sale of weapons, the supply of intelligence and the use of Royal Air Force bases in Cyprus”.

And with the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity, many in the UK believe the British government “has taken decisions that have implicated officials in the gravest breaches of international law”, they said.

These charges will not go away until there is an inquiry with the legal power to establish the truth, they added.



Activists plant Palestinian flags at Trump golf course in Ireland

A group of people have dug up the greens at a golf course owned by Trump in western Ireland and planted several Palestinian flags there, according to Irish media.

The incident at the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel in Doonbeg took place on Wednesday, days after protesters in Scotland targeted a Trump golf course in that country and sprayed “GAZA IS NOT 4 SALE” in huge white letters on the property’s lawn.

The Irish Times reported that police are “investigating an incident of criminal damage” in western Ireland, and that a spokesperson for Trump in Ireland has condemned the protest as a “childish, criminal act”.