'to stop such horrors ever happening again' A British doctor who spent 48 hours 'drowning in a sea of casualties' in Gaza has called on the rules of war to be re-drawn to prevent the horrors of the Middle East war repeating itself.
Professor Ghassan Abu-Sittah returned from the Palestinian enclave to east London almost a month ago and now is collaborating with Scotland Yard to help the International Criminal Court investigate alleged war crimes in the Israel-Hamas war.
He hopes that by providing evidence of his time working in the strip, international bodies will 're-establish the norms of war that emerged after the Second World War', which he argues have been broken since the 'watershed' conflict began in October.
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Completely alienated: British Muslims on Labour, Tory stance on Gaza war
Visiting Tel Aviv in mid-October, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stood next to his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, who had launched a devastating war on Gaza following the October 7 Hamas attacks on southern Israel. “We want you to win,” Sunak told Netanyahu before the cameras.
More than two months later, the United Kingdom’s support for Israel’s war has remained largely unqualified, even as Israeli bombs and artillery firing have killed more than 21,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 8,000 children.
But whatever a “win” might look like for Israel, Sunak’s Conservative Party and the opposition Labour Party, whose leader Keir Starmer has also backed Netanyahu’s war, have both lost voters like Ala Sirriyeh, a senior lecturer in sociology at Lancaster University.
“It has shown very starkly who they are prepared to throw under the bus to get elected, whose welfare matters and whose does not,” she told Al Jazeera. “As a Palestinian, I feel completely alienated from the major political parties [in the UK] and will not be voting for either of them in the near future.
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