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Two guests criticized the program "Gaza... What's next?" Western countries - especially the United States and Britain - continue to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and they said that these countries violate international law.

Jeremy Corbyn, a member of the British Parliament and former leader of the Labor Party, stressed that the British government's continued sale of weapons to Israel makes it complicit in what he called the crime committed against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

He said that a number of members of the British Parliament called on the Foreign Ministry to reveal and publish the legal advice confirming that Israel is violating international law in its war on Gaza.

The Observer newspaper, citing Alicia Cairns, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the British House of Commons, revealed that the British government did not publish the legal advice it received, and continued to supply weapons to Israel.

According to Corbyn, the British government - if what was published by the Observer is true - violated international law by selling weapons to Israel, and also by exchanging intelligence information with Israel.

He referred to a statement by British Foreign Minister David Cameron - a member of the British House of Lords - in which he said that stopping intelligence cooperation between his country and Israel would make the matter difficult for both parties, and he - that is, Cameron - suggested that the British government take an illegal path, as Corbyn said.

In the same context, the guest of the episode (3/31/2024) of the program “Gaza...What Next?” With the behavior of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who said that he was told that Britain going to invade Iraq was not legal, but he did not adhere to that, indicating that what is happening now with the current government in light of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip is a repetition of what happened in the case of the invasion of Iraq, He added that the violation of the law in the case of Gaza is more clear.

The former Labor Party leader points out that Britain's interests lie in its respect for international law, but it violates it as it continues to provide weapons to Israel, thus enabling it to carry out actions that lead to what he called genocide, which he said led to the killing of more than 30,000 people and the starvation of those who remained. A resident of Gaza.

As Corbyn emphasizes, Britain is a signatory to the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court, and therefore Britain may be held accountable for not respecting the decisions of this court.

On the other hand, Corbyn said that Cameron and US President Joe Biden are shedding crocodile tears for the people of Gaza, but they continue their close relationship with Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

For his part, the senior researcher at the Al Jazeera Center for Studies, Dr. Liqaa Makki, said that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wanted to conceal the legal advice on Gaza and hide it from British public opinion and the House of Commons, with the aim of not stopping the supply of weapons to Israel. He described this consultation as mandatory and would cause a problem. To the British government.

But Makki ruled out that a decision would be taken within the British House of Commons to stop supplying weapons to Israel, pointing out the possibility of evasion by using mechanisms that say that Israel is under threat from southern Lebanon.

He pointed out that the United States and other Western countries - especially Germany - are still supplying weapons to Israel, indicating that the Americans share the same goals of the war on Gaza with Israel, but they differ with it in methods, and they are now proposing more sinister approaches, as Makki said, who explained that after the decision The recent UN Security Council demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. Washington spoke of specific operations in Rafah targeting the leaders of the Islamic Resistance (Hamas) to avoid entering into a large-scale operation.

Source: Al Jazeera