Barrister warns UK against support of ‘genocide’ in Gaza
Barrister Michael Mansfield KC has warned the UK government against its continued support of Israel as it may become an “accessory to the commission of a crime”.
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00:00 The letter's been signed with the intention of persuading globally various governments
00:08 to consider their position vis-a-vis in Israel.
00:11 The demand being that there's a plausible case, well there's more than a plausible case
00:16 now for genocide.
00:18 This is a crime, international crime, and if you help Israel in any shape or form, you
00:25 are an accessory to the commission of a crime.
00:28 The obvious bit is obviously providing munitions, funding and so on.
00:32 Slowly governments are realising, because it's very important what's happened and why
00:38 the letter's been sent now, is that not only the International Court of Justice have indicated
00:43 in their various provisional measures that Israel's got to do far, far more to prevent
00:49 genocide, other nations have got to do far, far more to prevent genocide.