LONDON: The UK government is failing people in Gaza by continuing to allow parts manufactured for the F-35 jet program be used by the Israeli military, a British surgeon has said.
Prof. Nick Maynard of Oxford University told a two-day tribunal in London that he had seen first-hand the damage done by Israel in Gaza, especially to hospitals, and that the UK’s inaction on stopping the supply of parts amounts to complicity in attacks on innocent civilians.
“I’ve been in these hospitals, I’ve had unlimited access to every square inch of these hospitals and it is inconceivable to me that they are being used as Hamas command centers,” he said.
“This propaganda has been repeated by our media, been repeated by our government, yet there is no verifiable, remotely credible evidence to support these contentions.”
The tribunal — chaired by Jeremy Corbyn MP, former leader of the governing Labour Party — is examining allegations of genocide, war crimes, and the UK’s involvement in atrocities committed in Gaza.
