The evidence of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza is impossible to ignore. Its suffocating siege and renewed military offensive are destroying the health system, starving two million people, and threatening the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. UN experts and international human rights groups have concluded that Israel is committing extermination and genocide against the Palestinian people.
Now is the time to make our voices heard: Add your name to our demand that Keir Starmer and David Lammy take the actions needed to stop Gaza being erased.
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The UK must stop being an ally to these atrocities. Thanks to massive public pressure, our government has taken some limited steps, including suspending trade talks with Israel and imposing sanctions on some settlers. However, these fall far short of what is needed to stop Israel’s war on Palestinians.
Now, we must go further. Please help us demand that Keir Starmer and David Lammy impose a full arms embargo on Israel, ensure those responsible for atrocities are held to account, and take bold steps to stop Gaza from being erased.
The UK is enabling Israel’s erasure of Gaza by continuing to provide arms to Israel. This is both outrageous and heartbreaking, and must be stopped.
Israel’s actions pose an existential threat to Gaza’s entire population. Its suffocating siege is depriving Palestinians of their most basic survival needs – including food, medicine, and fuel. Starvation is being used as a weapon of war. Israel’s military attacks have killed over 1,400 healthcare workers and forced a third of hospitals in Gaza to completely shut down. Medicines and supplies are running out. Entire hospital departments have been reduced to rubble. Patients, including critically ill children, have been forced onto the streets.
Palestinians are enduring a living nightmare. They face escalating bombardment, starvation, illness, disease, and mass forced displacement. They are being threatened with expulsion from their land, or death. Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, Israeli military and settler violence against Palestinians continues to escalate.
In addition to calling for a permanent ceasefire, ending the siege of Gaza, and ensuring unrestricted aid access, the UK Government must:
The UK must immediately suspend all arms transfers to Israel, including the provision of parts for F-35 fighter jets, which have been used in airstrikes across Gaza. While the UK Government has taken limited steps to restrict arms exports, critical loopholes remain – including the continued export of F-35 components – leaving the UK complicit in the devastation Israel’s military assault has inflicted.
These attacks have included widespread and deliberate targeting of Gaza’s healthcare system. Hospitals, ambulances, medical staff and even patients have come under fire. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, medical facilities and personnel must be protected at all times. Yet, since October 2023, Gaza’s health system has been under siege, with repeated bombardments, forced evacuations, and blockades of medical supplies.
In January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that there is a plausible risk Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Under these conditions, the UK is obligated to act, not just to review arms licences, but to suspend all arms transfers immediately and comprehensively.
Impunity breeds further atrocities. The UK must support full accountability for all perpetrators of violations of international law in the occupied Palestinian territory. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the use of starvation as a weapon of war.
Among the gravest violations has been the systematic targeting of Gaza’s healthcare system. Medical workers have been killed while performing their duties. Hospitals have been bombed. Patients and displaced civilians sheltering in health facilities have been attacked or forcibly evacuated. These are not isolated incidents, they form part of a broader pattern of targeting civilian infrastructure and constitute serious breaches of international humanitarian law.
The UK cannot remain selective in how it applies international law. It must take decisive political, economic and diplomatic measures to end Israel’s ongoing atrocities in Gaza and Israel’s impunity, and send a clear message that war crimes will not go unpunished.
The UK must take active steps to bring an end to Israel’s unlawful occupation of the Palestinian territory. In July 2024, the International Court of Justice reaffirmed that Israel’s prolonged occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza is illegal under international law. It found that all states are obligated not to recognise or aid the maintenance of this unlawful situation.
Any future policy must be rooted in ending the occupation and supporting a just political resolution based on international law and that ensures Palestinian self-determination. The UK must not only condemn the occupation in words but actively work to dismantle it. It is imperative that the world does not allow Israel to continue to have full control over borders and access of the occupied Palestinian territory, as well as full impunity to commit atrocities against Palestinians.
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