Press Release: Israeli settlers should be disarmed and evacuated from occupied territory

31 July 2015

Caabu welcomes Foreign Affairs Select Committee inquiry into Libya

On the anniversary of the 2014 attacks on Gaza, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) have released a new report on UK Parliament's engagement with Palestine during 2010-2015.

Gaza War 2014

Since the end of the 51 day war in the summer of 2014, numerous reports have been published into what occurred in Gaza.  

Caabu materials

Talk by Dr Mads Gilbert on his experiences in Gaza - June 2015

Caabu expresses deep concern about treatment of journalists in Egypt

30 June 2015 

The correspondent of El País in Egypt, Ricard González, spoke to Caabu about how he was forced to flee the country under threat of arrest.

The Gaza war (July-August 2014)

This briefing is based on a variety of sources including UN, Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups reports in addition to specific briefings given to a Caabu Parliamentary delegation in the last week of August 2014 that visited Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank. The delegation met with representatives from UN agencies, development and health NGOS.

New report highlights attacks on Gaza’s hospitals and medics in 2014 military offensive

A joint NGO report has highlighted the devastating attacks on Gaza’s medical facilities and personnel which occurred during the 2014 military offensive on Gaza. This comes as states prepare to discuss the UN Commission of Inquiry into last summer’s 51-day attacks at the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva on Monday. 

“Modest expansion” of the UK’s resettlement scheme for Syrian refugees is a positive step, but not enough

Caabu welcomes the announcement by Prime Minister David Cameron of an increase in the number of Syrian refugees to be resettled in the UK. The Government has made a positive step, and should be commended for this, but to fully address the scale of a crisis where over 11 million people have been displaced from Syria (4 million in neighbouring countries), a more substantial and increased resettlement effort is urgently needed.

Caabu hosted a briefing in Parliament with Terje Rød-Larsen, Norwegian politican and diplomat, and President of the International Peace Institute on 16 June 2015;

Norwegian doctor and activist Mads Gilbert spoke at a Caabu / Britain-Palestine All-Party Parliamentary Group briefing in Parliament on 16 June 2015 about his extensive work with trauma patients in Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital. It was Chaired by Richard Burden MP, and was organised with the important assistance of Medical Aid for Palestinians.