Two ISB members, including a Shura member, contributed to the Foreign Affairs Committee consultation on Israel/Palestine.
Today, the results from the Foreign Affairs Committee are out.
They include:
* The UK’s actions in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and in the years preceding, have often been too little, too late.
* The Israeli Government has not listened to the UK, nor its friends and allies – with the exception of the US.
* Israel must open all crossing points without restriction to food, medical, shelter materials and other aid inflows to Gaza.
* The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, its aid sites and its activities in Gaza must be dismantled immediately and replaced with a UN-led system.
* It also calls on the UK Government to support a medical evacuation of critically injured children to the UK.
* The Committee calls for the UK’s sanctions against illegal outposts and violent Israeli settlers to be sustained and extended to all businesses operating in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and a comprehensive ban on the import of goods the illegal settlements.
* The Committee asks the UK Government to set out how permitting indirect exports of F-35 components to the global supply pool is consistent with its obligations under International Humanitarian
Law.
* The UK Government should set up a project to preserve and record evidence on both sides of the conflict, collecting evidence of acts during the conflict for future legal processes.
* The report calls on the UK to recognise the state of Palestine while there is still a state to recognise. The UK must work towards a 2 state solution.
