Corbyn-led tribunal accuses UK of complicity in Gaza genocide

Keir Starmer’s government is guilty of aiding Israel war crimes, experts at unofficial inquiry suggest.

London, United Kingdom – For Nick Maynard, a British doctor who has volunteered in Gaza several times, the United Kingdom’s “silence in action” is a form of the government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

As a wave of early autumn rain poured over London on Thursday, he painted a harrowing picture of the injuries he witnessed Israel inflict on children, through aerial bombardment or gunfire, or by the deliberate restriction of life-saving infant formula and medicine.

Boys he operated on, some as young as 11 or 12, “had been clearly targeted with shootings to the abdomen and the chest”, he told Al Jazeera, on the sidelines of an unofficial inquiry examining the UK’s alleged role in Israeli war crimes.

On one occasion at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, as Maynard operated on a patient in an ill-equipped theatre to the cacophony of bombs exploding, a group of four young teenagers, aged between 13 and 14, were brought in, “all shot in the testicles”.

“The pattern of the targeting of specific body parts was something we all recognised,” he said, “explained by what I describe as target practice by the Israeli soldiers.”