Seven mass graves holding hundreds of bodies have so far been discovered in three hospitals that were decimated by the Israeli army
MAY 8, 2024 – The Cradle
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Palestinian medical teams on 8 May unearthed dozens of bodies from a third mass grave at what remains of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, raising the number of mass graves left behind by the Israeli army inside Gaza hospitals to seven.
The chairman of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Ramy Abdu, said that the grave contains the bodies of “dozens of Palestinians, including women, children, and patients, executed by Israel.”
“We condemn in the strongest terms the crimes of genocide and the continuous killing committed by the occupation army against our Palestinian people,” the Government Media Office in Gaza said via Telegram.
“This brings the number of mass graves found inside hospitals to seven: one in Kamal Adwan Hospital, three graves in Al-Shifa Medical Complex, and three graves in the Nasser Medical Complex … 520 martyrs have been recovered from these graves so far,” the official statement details.
Gaza officials also stressed that they “hold the US administration, the international community, and the occupation fully responsible for these mass graves and this blatant aggression.”
International organizations have launched probes into the mass graves left behind by the Israeli army, as many of the bodies unearthed have shown signs of torture, summary execution, and even of having been buried alive.
Rescue teams have also reported seeing bodies wrapped in plastic bags with Hebrew writing on them, with many showing their hands were tied behind their backs. Doctors, nurses, children, and the elderly have been among those found buried.
“Some of the bodies found have evaporated and turned to ash. International institutions must identify the type of weapons used [by Israel],” the Gaza Civil Defense said in late April.
Over 13,000 Palestinians have gone missing since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Euro-Med has reported. This includes Palestinians trapped under the rubble of buildings destroyed by airstrikes, as well as those who have been forcibly disappeared and detained or left buried in unmarked mass graves.
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UK holds firm on arms exports to Israel despite Rafah invasion
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Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron speaks at the National Cyber Security Centre in London, May 9, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has said the United Kingdom will not halt arms sales to Israel even if the regime stages a large-scale assault on the southern Palestinian city of Rafah.
In a speech on Thursday David Cameron claimed that UK arms sales were not the same as those from the US to Israel.
The top British diplomat said there was “a very fundamental difference” between the US government, which supplies weapons directly as a state to Israel, and the UK government, which licenses the export of arms sold by companies.
“The US is a massive state supplier of weapons to Israel. We do not have a UK government supply of weapons to Israel, we have a number of licenses,” Cameron said.
In the main part of his speech, Cameron said Britain and its allies had to show more courage in facing down adversaries in “a moment of peril”. But he was unwilling to describe what Israel would have to do in Rafah to be deemed to have crossed a red line.
Katie Fallon, at the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (Caat), said Cameron’s comments show “absolutely no regard for the survival of Palestinians in Gaza or for the rule of law in the UK.”
“It is beyond alarming, and unlawful, that our foreign secretary and government think that the risk of genocide and war crimes are simply irrelevant in their decision to license UK-made arms and components to Israel for use in Gaza,” she said.
The current licenses cover the export of components for combat aircraft, armored personnel carriers and targeting equipment.
“F-35 jets that have been dropping bombs on Gaza for the last seven months would not be in the sky without the components made all across the UK,” Fallon said.
President Joe Biden recently threatened to stop sending some US weapons amid concerns about an invasion into Rafah.
British lawmakers have pressed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to follow the US.
“It’s been reported that the United States has paused an armed shipment to Israel. The UK will now follow suit, won’t it?” Scottish National Party MP Stephen Flynn said in Parliament.
In response, Sunak said: “The right honorable gentleman may not realize, but the UK government doesn’t itself directly provide arms or ship arms to Israel.”
Sunak, however, went on to acknowledge that the UK government licenses the export of arms to Israel.
The government drew similar distinctions when asked tough questions about UK arms exports to Israel in February.
Palestinians warn UK troops deployed in Gaza would be ‘legitimate targets’
Britain’s defense ministry says it is considering sending troops into Gaza to escort aid deliveries,
London is facing a domestic pressure since an Israeli attack on the World Central Kitchen convoy killed three British nationals last month in Gaza.
Government officials have repeatedly emphasized in recent months that UK defense exports to Israel were very small. In 2023, Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said such exports were “just £42m ($53m) last year.”
Anti-arms campaigners have said that the true figure could be much higher, because the items sold under opaque open licenses keep the value of arms and their quantities secret.
They also point to how critical UK-made components may be to Israel’s war effort.
According to Caat, British companies provide around 15 percent of the components of the F35 stealth combat aircraft that Israel has used to bomb the besieged Palestinian territory.
It also believes the real value of arms exports to Israel is twice as high as the government claims it is, reaching at least £1bn ($1.3 billion) since 2015.
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David Cameron pledges to build ‘vital’ Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre alongside Parliament
The memorial was first proposed in 2015
BY DANIEL BEN-DAVIDMAY 08, 2024 17:01
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Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron speaks during a parliamentary meeting to mark Yom HaShoah (Credit: Holocaust Education Trust)
Politicians across the political spectrum have renewed their calls for a Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre to be constructed on the lawn alongside parliament.
MPs and Peers were joined by Holocaust survivors at a Parliamentary gathering on Tuesday to mark Yom HaShoah, the Jewish community’s day to remember the six million Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust.
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