A war crimes complaint, the first of its kind, seeking to expose 10 British nationals accused of committing war crimes for the Israeli regime in Gaza is being handed to the Metropolitan Police.
According to reports, a leading barrister and a legal research team submitted an extensive report to London’s Metropolitan Police on Monday, April 7, accusing 10 British citizens of war crimes in Gaza.
They are accused of crimes including murder, extermination, attacking civilians and the deportation or forcible transfer of a population while serving in the IDF.
The 240-page report was compiled by a team of UK lawyers and researchers based in The Hague for submission to the War Crimes Team at the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command.
The submission was made on behalf of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the British-based Public Interest Law Centre, which are representing Palestinians in Gaza and Britain.
The team of legal experts includes England’s most prominent human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield KC.
Mansfield, who has represented clients including Princess Diana and Mohamed Al-Fayed said: “In the last 18 months we have witnessed international crimes unfold. Our leaders have done little if anything to prevent the suffering of millions of innocent Palestinians.
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We ask the war crimes team to take this report seriously, investigate, and if proven, arrest and try the individuals named. British nationals are under a legal obligation not to collude with crimes committed in Palestine. No one is above the law.”
The report, based on six months of evidence-gathering, covers alleged offences committed in Gaza from October 2023 to May 2024.
Paul Heron, legal director of the Public Interest Law Centre, which commissioned the document, said: “Shockingly, British citizens have actively served in Israel’s armed forces, directly contributing to atrocities.
“As a law centre based in Britain, we have a duty to stand up. We’re filing our report to make clear these war crimes are not in our name.”
