A war of words has erupted between Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his counterparts in the UK, France and Canada, who he’s accused of “siding with rapists, baby killers and kidnappers”.
Meanwhile, the real war is continuing in Gaza – a war which Amnesty International and other independent organisations have described as a genocide.
Malnutrition and starvation are being visited upon the local Palestinian population, thanks to Israel’s blockade of thousands of aid trucks, at the same time as bombs are raining down on areas where it’s claimed Hamas still has military strongholds.
Overnight, 44 Palestinians were killed in two separate air strikes, including 20 children
Global tensions around the situation have only heightened following the recent assassination of two diplomats in Washington DC, apparently in the name of a Free Palestine.
Israel says it is acting response to the attack on southern Israel by Hamas in October 2023, in which 1200 people died, but 20 months on, one of its key war aims – the release of all the hostages – still hasn’t been met.
There’s growing evidence that, in any event, Israel will seek to either keep Gaza under permanent military occupation or even annexe areas under notional Palestinian control.
Britain has recently imposed sanctions on some Israeli settlers in the West Bank and suspended trade talks, but has the time come for the UK to stop arming Israel completely?
Adrian Goldberg talks to Hannah Weisfeld is the Executive Director and founder of Yachad, a British Jewish organisation whose primary mission is to empower British Jews to support a political resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
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