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SvennoJ on 16 September 2025
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Israel’s assault on Gaza City ‘utterly reckless and appalling’

The UK’s recently appointed foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, says the Israeli army’s assault on Gaza “will only bring more bloodshed”.

Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, however, said the UK government’s “legacy will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time”.

“This genocide belongs to Britain, too,” he wrote on X.

In another post on X, former Labour MP Zarah Sultana also questioned Britain’s involvement in Israel’s war on Gaza, calling on the government to “stop selling arms to Israel”.



Amnesty International urges UK to ‘punish’ genocide after UN report

Amnesty International has called on the UK to “prevent and punish” Israel’s genocide in Gaza after the release of the UN commission’s report.

Kristyan Benedict, Amnesty International UK’s crisis response manager, said in a statement that the UK “must change its position and take action without delay” amid the UN’s finding of genocide.

Although the UK has said it will recognise a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has faced criticism for meeting Israeli President Isaac Herzog in London last week.

Hundreds of people, meanwhile, have been arrested for their support of the banned campaign group Palestine Action.

The UK government’s “continued reluctance to officially acknowledge even the risk of the ongoing genocide in Gaza is increasingly untenable and stands in stark contrast to overwhelming legal evidence and the mounting consensus among international genocide scholars and human rights organisations”, Benedict said.

“The government must now stop indulging in genocide denial. It must urgently fulfil its legal and moral responsibility by taking immediate, decisive steps to prevent and punish genocide.”