On 23rd July come and share a meal with us. Eat delicious food, listen to speeches and be inspired to donate. PSC will be hosting a three-course meal to raise money for our campaign work, with exciting, high-profile speakers including: Diane Abbott, Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington Salim Alam, PSC Prof Manuel …
UN Independent Commission of Inquiry (Gaza) On the first anniversary of Operation Protective Edge, backbench MPs held a 90 minute non-votable debate in Westminster Hall. It was led by Holly Lynch, new Labour MP for Halifax, with Philip Hollobone in the chair. Click on the links for the full Hansard transcript. Excerpts transcribed below: – Holly Lynch: [passage omitted] …
THURSDAY 9 JULY 2015 Questions to the Leader of the House: – Holly Lynch: Yesterday I secured a 90-minute Westminster Hall debate to consider the report of the United Nations independent commission of inquiry into the 2014 Gaza conflict. The debate was chaired by the hon. Member for Kettering (Mr Hollobone), who did a great job …
In July 2014, Israeli land, sea and air forces began a sustained and devastating assault on Gaza, terrorising the Palestinian population of 1.8 million for 51 days until, eventually, more than 2,000 Palestinians had been killed and much of Gaza reduced to rubble. The horror of those days must never be forgotten. Entire families were …
MONDAY 29 JUNE 2015 Andrew Percy: What assessment has Foreign Secretary made of the implications for his Department’s policies of the decision of the Palestinian Authority to pay convicted Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons? http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-06-23/3885 Andrew Percy: What processes are in place to ensure that (a) people and (b) non-governmental organisations in the Palestinian territories …
MONDAY 22 JUNE 2015 Andrew Smith: What steps has Foreign Secretary taken (a) unilaterally and (b) with EU colleagues to help to lift the blockade of Gaza and allow unrestricted access for humanitarian aid and reconstruction? http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-06-16/2644 Andrew Smith: When did Foreign Secretary last discuss (a) Gaza and (b) Israeli settlements with his colleagues in …
Gaza: one year on Friday 10th July, 5.30-7.30pm, Richmond Terrace, opposite Downing Street, London Gaza September, 2014. Credit Agencia de Noticias ANDES – shared under Creative Commons licence We are approaching the first anniversary of Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza last summer, which terrorised the Palestinian population of 1.8 million for 51 days, killing more …
The latest official government figures, collated by War on Want, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Campaign Against Arms Trade, reveal that the UK approved £4 million worth of arms sales to Israel in the four months that followed last year’s bombardment of Gaza. The licences cover equipment that is likely to be used if violence resumes; …
Our new report Arming Apartheid: UK complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people details how trading arms with Israel makes the UK complicit in Israel’s continuing violations of human rights and international law. Over 2,000 Palestinians in Gaza were brutally killed by Israel last summer. This is only the most recent example of Israel’s indiscriminate …
Gaza – one year on Gaza vigil – Friday 10th July, 2015, Time: 5.30pm to 7.30pm Richmond Terrace (opposite Downing Street), Whitehall, London In July 2014, Israeli land, sea and air forces began a sustained and devastating assault on Gaza, terrorising the Palestinian population of 1.8 million for 51 days until, eventually, more than 2,000 …