UK lawyers to charge 10 Britons for Gaza war crimes

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UK lawyers to charge 10 Britons for Gaza war crimes
https://alethonews.com/2025/04/07/uk-lawyers-to-charge-10-britons-for-gaza-war-crimes/

A leading UK human rights lawyer is set to submit a war crimes complaint to the Metropolitan police against 10 British citizens who served with the Israeli army in Gaza.

Michael Mansfield KC will hand the 240-page complaint to the police department's war crimes unit on 7 April. It cites Israel's targeted killing of civilians and humanitarian aid workers, as well as airstrikes on hospitals and densely populated civilian neighborhoods. It also includes the targeting of religious sites and historic monuments.

The documents were prepared by British lawyers and researchers from The Hague. The names of the 10 Britons in question have not been made public.

"�If one of our nationals is committing �an offence, we ought to be doing something about it�. Even if we can't stop the government of foreign countries behaving badly, we can at least stop our nationals from behaving badly," Mansfield said.

"British nationals are under a legal obligation not to collude with crimes committed in Palestine. No one is above the law," he added.

The dossier is based on open-source evidence and testimonies from eyewitnesses. The crimes include an Israeli army bulldozer trampling a dead body in the courtyard of one of the several hospitals attacked by Israeli ground forces in Gaza.

"The public will be shocked, I would have thought, to hear that there's credible evidence that Brits have been directly involved in committing some of those atrocities," said Sean Summerfield, British barrister at Doughty Street Chambers – who helped put together the evidence which is to be submitted.

The complaint comes as Israeli soldiers are being increasingly pursued in international courts for their roles in the crimes committed against Palestinians in Gaza.

Pro-Palestine organizations have filed dozens of criminal complaints in courts around the world since the start of the year, targeting Israeli soldiers for their role in Tel Aviv's ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza.

Among these organizations is the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), named after the six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed by the Israeli army along with her family in Gaza City last year.

"When genocide or crimes against humanity occur, there is a global need for justice and accountability, not only from victims but also from those in solidarity with them. Like many others, I was deeply impacted by witnessing the level of impunity displayed by the Israelis, who were not only committing these crimes but also recording and posting them on social media, acting as if they were above any legal framework," HRF Chairman Dyab Abou Janjah told The Cradle's Esteban Carillo in an exclusive interview in February.

HRF focuses its efforts on pursuing both dual-national Israeli soldiers and those who leave Israel for vacation.

In January, a Brazilian court ordered an investigation into a vacationing Israeli soldier who had been identified in a video of his participation in the destruction of civilian infrastructure in Gaza.

The soldier fled Brazil with help from the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Israel has warned active-duty soldiers not to travel over the risk of legal action, and has issued certain restrictions on media interviews with military personnel.

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