8 h. ago Ten Brits are accused of committing war crimes 'by targeting and killing civilians and aid workers' in Gaza while fighting for Israel

The alleged war crimes include 'running a bulldozer over a dead body' and a vehicle demolishing part of a hospital.

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19 h. ago Report accusing 10 British citizens of war crimes in Gaza submitted to police in London

Report accusing 10 British citizens of war crimes in Gaza submitted to police in London  Anadolu Ajansı

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21 h. ago Ten Britons accused of war crimes in Gaza in dossier submitted to Met Police

A team led by top human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield KC says they have evidence of British citizen’s involvement in targeted killings of civilians and attacks on hospitals

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24 h. ago Ten Brits are accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza

Lawyers will today hand in a 240-page dossier to the Metropolitan Police 's war crimes unit alleging the British nationals were involved in the targeted killing of civilians and aid workers.

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25 h. ago Middle East crisis live: Israeli attack on tents housing journalists in Gaza kills at least two, say Palestinian medics

Airstrikes hit media tent outside Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, say medics, injuring nine othersAs we mentioned in the opening summary, ten Britons have been accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza. Here is some more of the story, written by the Guardian’s legal affairs correspondent Haroon Siddique:Michael Mansfield KC is one of a group of lawyers who will on Monday hand in a 240-page dossier to Scotland Yard’s war crimes unit alleging targeted killing of civilians and aid workers, including by sniper fire, and indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, including hospitals.The report, which has been prepared by a team of UK lawyers and researchers in The Hague, also accuses suspects of coordinated attacks on protected sites including historic monuments and religious sites, and forced transfer and displacement of civilians. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago British painter says Trump portrait accusations put her business in danger

Artist Sarah Boardman created the painting of the US president, which was recently taken down.

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47 h. ago Aid worker recounts surviving Israeli Military gunfire at ambulances and fire truck in Gaza

An aid worker who survived being fired at by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza described his experience.

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60 h. ago British drugs giant accused of hiding link between heartburn medicine and cancer

Zantac went on sale in the UK in 1981. But in 2019, GSK withdrew it in the UK and US over fears that the ingredient ranitidine created a carcinogenic chemical

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60 h. ago Israel admits wrongly identifying slain Gaza aid workers as a threat

Israel has admitted to 'mistakenly identifying' Gaza aid workers as a threat after phone footage from a Palestinian medic among the 15 slain in southern Gaza cast doubt on their claims. 

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3 d. ago Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again | Jagan Chapagain

A record number of humanitarian workers were killed last year. My staff’s red uniforms should have protected them. Instead they became their death shroudsJagan Chapagain is secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of paramedicsWhich was most horrific? The agonising week-long wait – silence after our colleagues went missing, as we suspected the worst but hoped for something different? Or the confirmation, seven days later, that bodies had been found? Or, since, the ghastly details of how they were found, and killed?Their ambulances were crushed and partly buried. Nearby were their bodies – also buried, en masse, in the sand. Our dead colleagues were still wearing their Red Crescent vests. In life, those uniforms signalled their status as humanitarian workers; they should have protected them. Instead, in death, those red vests became their shrouds.Jagan Chapagain is secretar...

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3 d. ago ‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics

Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers• Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen againGaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a civilian now that Israeli forces have resumed their military campaign with even more ferocity, but for the first responders who rush towards the wreckage of bombed buildings, the risks are multiplied many times over.The 15 paramedics and rescue workers whose bodies were found last weekend in a bulldozed pit outside Rafah knew they were putting their lives in peril to try to save others, but they could not have been prepared for what awaited them in the early hours of 23 March. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Channel small boat migrants top 30,000 since Labour came to power, as Tories accuse PM Sir Keir Starmer of 'betraying the British public'

There were scores of migrant arrivals in Dover this morning after UK Border Force vessels intercepted dinghies in the middle of the English Channel.

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3 d. ago Channel small boat migrants poised to top 30,000 since Labour came to power, as Tories accuse PM Sir Keir Starmer of 'betraying the British public'

There were scores of migrant arrivals in Dover this morning after UK Border Force vessels intercepted dinghies in the middle of the English Channel.

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4 d. ago Britain and France accuse Russia's Putin of delaying Ukraine ceasefire efforts

Britain and France are accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of dragging his feet over Ukraine ceasefire talks and ramped up pressure on Moscow by insisting that he owes the United States an immediate answer

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4 d. ago Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed’s Fixer review – this startling tale urgently needed telling

Dispatches, presented by Cathy Newman, talks to 16 survivors or witnesses of the ex-Harrods boss’s abuse, as well as tracking down his alleged enabler. The result is a raw, horrifying and invaluable watchIt is disturbingly easy to respond with little more than fatigue to reports of powerful men sexually exploiting women, because there have been so many. The part of us that should emit shock, disgust and righteous outrage becomes dulled through overuse. And so, when Mohamed Al Fayed, the billionaire former owner of Harrods, died in 2023 and was then credibly accused of being one of Britain’s worst sex offenders, the collective reaction felt like a shrug.The new Dispatches investigation, Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed’s Fixer, however, ought to sharpen our revulsion and our resolve to fight for change. Building on the 2017 Dispatches documentary Behind Closed Doors and the 2024 BBC programme Predator at Harrods, it outlines the scale of the tycoon’s wrongdoing: last year, the Metro...

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4 d. ago Tommy Fury accused of rejecting 'unbelievable deal' for Jake Paul rematch

The two boxing stars have talked up a potential rematch over the last few years, but the Brit has been accused of rejecting several offers for the sequel

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6 d. ago Israel announces plan to seize ‘large areas’ in Gaza – latest updates

Defence minister Israel Katz says large areas of the territory will be seized and added to the security zones of IsraelAirstrikes continued on Gaza on Wednesday morning after the Israeli defense minister announced that Israel intended to expand its war. In a statement, Israel Katz said the offensive was “expanding to crush and clean the area of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure and capture large areas that will be added to the security zones of the state of Israel.”The move has been condemned by the Hostages Families Forum, who said it appeared that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government were making the return of 59 hostages still held in Gaza by Hamas “a secondary task” that had been “pushed to the bottom of the priority list.”I wish success to the IDF soldiers who are fighting bravely and powerfully in Gaza for the return of the kidnapped and the defeat of Hamas. The goal of Operation “Strength and Sword” is first and foremost to increase pressure for the release of all the hostage...

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6 d. ago US bombing of Yemen compounding dire humanitarian situation – rights groups

Anti-Houthi air campaign, details of which were revealed in Signal scandal, has brought further destruction to countryA ramped-up US bombing campaign on Yemen has killed civilians and brought further destruction and uncertainty to the poorest country in the Middle East, compounding an already dire situation after Donald Trump cut aid, according to local people, humanitarian workers and rights groups.“Now the rampant bombing has started, you never know which way things will go,” said Siddiq Khan, who works as a country director in Yemen for the aid charity Islamic Relief. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Five men accused of gang raping British woman in Cyprus cleared after 'police errors'

The lawyer for a 20-year-old woman who accused five men of raping her in Ayia Napa in September 2023 says it is 'ridiculous' they were acquitted, adding that telling her the outcome of the case was 'one of the hardest phone calls I have ever had to make'

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6 d. ago Family of British aid worker killed in Gaza make fresh calls for investigation

The family of James Kirby, an aid worker killed in an Israeli drone strike, say they feel ignored by the Government on the anniversary of his death.

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