2024-07-24 China Daily Editor:Li Yan Representatives of Palestinian factions signed on Tuesday in Beijing a declaration pledging to end division and strengthen unity, which officials and
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2024-07-24 China Daily Editor:Li Yan Representatives of Palestinian factions signed on Tuesday in Beijing a declaration pledging to end division and strengthen unity, which officials and
Pro-Israel lobbyists have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members since they were first elected to parliament, Declassified can reveal.
The list of recipients includes prime minister Keir Starmer, his deputy Angela Rayner, chancellor Rachel Reeves, foreign secretary David Lammy and home secretary Yvette Cooper.
Jonathan Reynolds, who will oversee arms exports to Israel as UK trade secretary, is another beneficiary, alongside Labour’s election mastermind Pat McFadden, whose responsibilities now include national security.
Some of the donations were provided by Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), a lobby group which takes MPs on “fact-finding” missions to the region.
Reeves, McFadden, Reynolds and technology secretary Peter Kyle were recently listed as vice-chairs of LFI.
Other major funders include pro-Israel businessmen Trevor Chinn and Stuart Roden.
The total value of the donations amounts to over £300,000.
On Dec. 30, 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution requesting the ICJ to provide an advisory opinion regarding the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem.
In February 2024, the ICJ held public hearings at which Palestine, 49 UN member states, and three international organizations presented oral statements regarding the issue.
At the hearings, Palestine’s UN envoy Riyad Mansour urged the ICJ to declare Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories illegal, emphasizing that such a ruling would pave the way for an immediate end to the occupation and the establishment of a “just and lasting peace.”
Without participating in the hearings, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement rejecting the legitimacy of the hearings, accusing them of attempting to further undermine Israel’s right to survival and self-defense.
Mahajneh stated that the detainees eat while handcuffed and each detainee has one meal throughout the day, which consists of 100 grams of bread, a cucumber or tomato, and a very small amount of milk.
He said that the bathroom is exposed inside the detainee’s rooms, in addition to the presence of surveillance cameras inside the rooms focusing on the bathrooms, while the duration of showering is still limited to one minute only.
Mahajna, quoting the detainees, pointed out that Ofer detention center includes two torture wards inside the rooms, and the detainees cannot be seen during their torture, but only their screams can be heard. Recently, the occupation soldiers assaulted all the detainees in Ofer, causing many of them to have their limbs broken.
Lawyer Mahajna quoted one of the detainees, who was transferred from the “Sde Teman” camp to “Ofer”, as saying that one of the sick detainees was killed after the occupation soldiers refused to provide him with the necessary treatment.
All the way through this latest IDF atrocity in the area – the Zionists have pursued the policy of withholding food, water and medicine from being distributed to the besieged Palestinian people. Simultaneously, the Israeli Authorities then state that there are ample supplies of resources for all the Palestinian people and that news to the opposite is left-wing propaganda designed to turn the International Community against Israel. The US, UK and EU are turning a blind-eye to all Israeli atrocities – but are quick to support any anti-Palestinian conspiracy theory that manifests in the West!
Security sources told Xinhua that Israeli aircraft targeted the gate of the Al-Awda School, which houses hundreds of displaced people in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, using at least one missile.
The videos shared by Palestinian activists on the social media platform Facebook showed dozens of bodies lying on the ground, covered in blood.
Medical sources said the Israeli airstrike killed at least 25 people, including women and children, and wounded dozens in varying degrees.
The sources told Xinhua that the number of victims is expected to rise due to the overcrowding of displaced people in the area.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military about the incident.