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| Today, on UN Human Rights Day, we will hand in to Downing Street a petition signed by 4,883 people calling for action from our government on Palestinian child prisoners held by Israel. In June 2012 a group of senior UK lawyers published an FCO-funded independent report, Children in Military Custody, on the plight of Palestinian children detained by Israel. The report concluded that the treatment of these children was in breach of article 76 of the fourth Geneva convention and several articles of the UN convention on the rights of the child. The report made 40 recommendations. The FCO accepted the findings and promised to take them up with Israel. Six months later, not one of these recommendations has been implemented. | Today, on UN Human Rights Day, we will hand in to Downing Street a petition signed by 4,883 people calling for action from our government on Palestinian child prisoners held by Israel. In June 2012 a group of senior UK lawyers published an FCO-funded independent report, Children in Military Custody, on the plight of Palestinian children detained by Israel. The report concluded that the treatment of these children was in breach of article 76 of the fourth Geneva convention and several articles of the UN convention on the rights of the child. The report made 40 recommendations. The FCO accepted the findings and promised to take them up with Israel. Six months later, not one of these recommendations has been implemented. |
| That is not good enough. Since the government of Israel refuses to uphold international law, we call on the British government to do so. Our government must show courage and take all appropriate action, including sanctions against Israel, rather than be complicit in the continuing impunity with which Israel acts against Palestinian human rights. Geoffrey Bindman QC Action for Palestinian Children, Haya Al Farra Palestinian Mission, Betty Hunter and Sara Apps Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jenny Tonge | That is not good enough. Since the government of Israel refuses to uphold international law, we call on the British government to do so. Our government must show courage and take all appropriate action, including sanctions against Israel, rather than be complicit in the continuing impunity with which Israel acts against Palestinian human rights. Geoffrey Bindman QC Action for Palestinian Children, Haya Al Farra Palestinian Mission, Betty Hunter and Sara Apps Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jenny Tonge |
| • When will William Hague admit publicly that Israel has no interest in the two-state solution, or any solution other than the continual persecution of the Palestinians (Report, 5 December)? He and the most important key players, the US government, need to act on the only just solution to the conflict – one single democratic state between the Jordan and the Mediterranean for all its inhabitants. Karl Sabbagh Newbold on Stour, Warwickshire | • When will William Hague admit publicly that Israel has no interest in the two-state solution, or any solution other than the continual persecution of the Palestinians (Report, 5 December)? He and the most important key players, the US government, need to act on the only just solution to the conflict – one single democratic state between the Jordan and the Mediterranean for all its inhabitants. Karl Sabbagh Newbold on Stour, Warwickshire |
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