In Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Questions on 18 July 2023, British MPs pressed the government on issues regarding Palestine, Sudan, Syria, and Egypt’s imprisonment of British-Egyptian citizen Alaa Abd El-Fattah.
Write to your MP. Demand justice and accountability for Palestinians, and action over forced evictions, displacement, settler violence and ethnic cleansing.
The Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group hosted an online briefing on Thursday 6 July at 2pm with Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP), who presented their latest report Arbitrary by Default: Palestinian children in the Israeli military court system.
UK anti-boycott bill is a win for autocratic regimes everywhere - Article in Middle East Eye by Chris Doyle, 6 July 2023
Beyond further enabling Israel’s violence against Palestinians, the bill would stifle the ability of public officials to hold any state accountable for human rights violations
Over 100 UK Parliamentarians from all major political parties have written to the Foreign Secretary Rt.
Write to your MP and urge them to oppose the government's anti-boycott Bill
The Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group hosted an online briefing on Monday 26 June on the Consequences of Israeli Human Rights Violations on the Mental Health of Women in Gaza, with Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei, Director General of Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, a leading mental health services provider in Palestine and Dana Moss, international advocacy coordinator at Physicians for Human Rights Israel.
Caabu, Amnesty UK and Medical Aid for Palestinians Parliamentary delegation to the West Bank, 28 May -1 June 2023
From 28 May to 1 June, Caabu, Amnesty UK and Medical Aid for Palestinians organised another powerful and telling delegation to the West Bank. The delegates were Flick Drummond MP, Seema Malhotra MP, Anum Qaisar MP and Lord Collins of Highbury. This was a crucial time to see the lived experience of Palestinians living under occupation and systemic discrimination, and how the regime of apartheid operates.
The plight of the Bedouins is another sign of apartheid in Israel - article by Chris Doyle in Arab News, 5 June 2023
A letter was sent for publication to the Guardian on 13 May 2023 from a cross-party group of UK Parliamentarians on Gaza. The letter was not published due to the announcement of a ceasefire, but the key messages, however, remain very valid, and the UK must redouble its efforts to resolve the root causes of the nightmare for people in Gaza, including ensuring that all actors are held accountable to international law, an end to Israel's blockade and collective punishment of two million people in Gaza and an end to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory.
