Polanski and Corbyn join calls for Britons who served in Israeli army to be tracked

Green Party leader Zack Polanski and Your Party leader Jeremy Corbyn have joined calls for the British government to place British citizens who have served in the Israeli military under surveillance.

Polanski signed an open letter organised by Declassified UK to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper urging them to "track the movements of Brits who have served in the IDF" and "subject them to secondary screening where necessary at ports of entry".

The letter called for "robust war crimes investigations in line with domestic and international law". 

Around 2,000 British-Israeli dual nationals have served in the Israeli military during Israel's war on Gaza, which a UN commission of inquiry found was a genocide last year. 

Israeli forces have killed nearly 73,000 Palestinians since the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 which killed 1,200 people, with a further 170,000 wounded. Thousands more in Gaza remain missing and are presumed dead beneath the rubble.

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An Israeli soldier raises his rifle as part of an occupation patrol through the market in the Old City of Nablus, in the northern West Bank on 12 April (AFP)
An Israeli soldier raises his rifle as part of an occupation patrol through the market in the Old City of Nablus, in the northern West Bank on 12 April (AFP)

This article was sourced from Middle East Eye.

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