Jeremy Corbyn calls on UK to freeze arms sales to Israel

  • News
  • March 03, 2019
Jeremy Corbyn calls on UK to freeze arms sales to Israel

Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the United Kingdom Labor Party and the country’s opposition, called on Friday upon the UK to freeze arms sales to Israel and to condemn it for killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
In a tweet, Corbyn said, “The UN says Israel’s killings of demonstrators in Gaza – including children, paramedics and journalists – may constitute “war crimes or crimes against humanity”.
He added that the “UK government must unequivocally condemn the killings and freeze arms sales to Israel.”
Corbyn’s statement came after UN investigators accused Israeli forces of intentionally firing on civilians and committed war crimes in their lethal response to Palestinian demonstrations in Gaza.
The independent Commission of Inquiry, set up last year by the UN’s human rights council, said Israeli forces killed 189 people and shot more than 6,100 others with live ammunition near the fence that divides the two territories.
The panel said in a statement that it had found “reasonable grounds to believe that Israeli snipers shot at journalists, health workers, children and persons with disabilities, knowing they were clearly recognizable as such”.

Picked for you

40 MEMBERS OF THE US CONGRESS DEMAND CONDEMNATION OF ISRAELI DEMOLITIONS

40 MEMBERS OF THE US CONGRESS DEMAND CONDEMNATION OF ISRAELI DEMOLITIONS

US Congressman Mark Pocan conveyed a letter signed by 40 Democrats to Secretary of State Mark Pompeo, urging him to convey to the Israeli government his  condemnation of the demolition of 76 structures in the Palestinian Bedouin community of Homsa al-Baquia (Khierbet Humsah), in the Jordan Valley, and to secure a commitment ending future displacement efforts.  “These acts are a... Read more