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Despite ongoing Israeli war crimes and deliberate massacres of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as increasing global solidarity against the Israeli occupation, there remains a lack of genuine pressure on Israel to cease its genocide.
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Following the UK’s announcement to halt 10% of arms sales to Israel, the new UK government has condemned the Israeli massacre of displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area, which Israel had designated as a “safe zone.”
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has also condemned the deadly airstrike. In a statement on X, Eide criticized the attack on the so-called safe zone and stressed that all parties in the war must protect civilians and adhere to international humanitarian law.
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The above Palestine coin is older than the state of Israel; and there are many other coins like this and there is a whole library of these coins for those who are interested about Palestine, its culture, identity, politics, people and economy, certainly much older than Israel that was created as a colonial outpost in 1948.
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A British Foreign Office official who worked on counter-terrorism has resigned in protest over arms sales to Israel. He said the British government “may be complicit in war crimes”.
His resignation is trending on the social media with commentary.
Mark Smith, who worked at the British Embassy in Dublin, wrote to colleagues on Friday that he had raised concerns “at every level” of the Foreign Office but to no avail.
Smith in his letter of resignation said he had previously worked on evaluating arms export licensing in the Middle East for the government, and that his colleagues “every day” were seeing “clear and indisputable examples” of war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law by Israel in Gaza.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office declined to comment on individual cases, but said the government was committed to upholding international law according to JO24.
One blogger states: “We wait with bated breath for this extremely serious matter to be covered by all of the mainstream media and for government ministers to be rigorously questioned.”
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The UK government announced, Friday, Britain’s decision to unfreeze funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy pledged to provide the UN agency with additional support of 21 million pounds ($27 million).
Lammy told the British House of Commons: “We are canceling the decision to suspend funding for UNRWA. UNRWA is absolutely essential for providing humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, which is besieged and devastated by the war.”
The British decision comes as the Israeli occupation army has been waging a war of genocide on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, amid political and diplomatic efforts to end the work of UNRWA which provides education, health, and aid to millions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon according to the Palestine Information Center.
