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UK Charities: Call for Immediate End to Closure of Gaza after 15 Years of Collective Punishment and Imposed Fragmentation
20th July 2022 Since June 2007, consecutive Israeli governments have imposed a severe closure regime and blockade on the civilian population of Gaza. This has been a devastating chapter in the decades-long fragmentation imposed on the Palestinian people, which continues to undermine their fundamental rights. The punishing effect of this sustained policy has been to further…
Read MoreAmnesty International UK: Press Release: Israel | Palestinians are living under a system of apartheid – major new report
On 1 Febuary 2022 Amnesty International declared Palestinians are living under a system of apartheid in a 280-page report. You can read all about the report by going to Amnesty’s Press Release. Alternatively, the full report is available to view here via the Amnesty website: Amnesty International’s 2022 Report: Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians
Read MoreEconomic Crisis in Lebanon Worsens
Economic Crisis in Lebanon Among the Worst in the World The financial crisis in Lebanon is worsening. According to the World Bank it might be one of the worst financial collapses that the world has seen in the past 200 years, “the impact of this worsening crisis will soon become catastrophic since there is no…
Read MorePalestine Platform Statement 14 May 2021
We are a group of UK-based humanitarian, development, human rights and faith organisations working for the rights of the Palestinian people. The world has been given a stark reminder on the eve of the 73rd anniversary of what is known by Palestinians as the Nakba (‘catastrophe’) that the dispossession that began in 1948 is a…
Read MoreUK Charities: Condemn Prime Minister’s comments on ICC investigation
In response to Prime Minister Johnson’s statements on the on the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into alleged grave crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), a number of UK charities have issued the following statement below: UK charities statement on the Prime Minister’s comments on the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation – 14 April 2021 We condemn the Prime…
Read MoreUK Charities ask: “Is the UK government abandoning the Palestinian people?”
29 June 2020 As a group of UK-based humanitarian, development, human rights and faith organisations working to support the rights and welfare of the Palestinian people, we are gravely concerned by the Israeli Government’s threat to annex more Palestinian land. The UK government has, at times, asserted that annexation ‘could not pass unchallenged’. A reluctance…
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