Declassified documents show UK aware of Israeli war crimes for 24 years
- UK Foreign Office files, public since 2024, record warnings about Israeli violence and rights abuses since 2002.
- British diplomats condemned Israeli conduct in the occupied West Bank as a pattern of human rights abuses in 2002 – 24 years before London took a tougher stance towards Israel this week.
- These decades-old condemnations are contained in UK Foreign Office files written during the administration of former Prime Minister Tony Blair while Israel undertook a brutal 2002 offensive in the occupied West Bank.
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- UK Foreign Office files, public since 2024, record warnings about Israeli violence and rights abuses since 2002.
- British diplomats condemned Israeli conduct in the occupied West Bank as a pattern of human rights abuses in 2002 – 24 years before London took a tougher stance towards Israel this week.
- These decades-old condemnations are contained in UK Foreign Office files written during the administration of former Prime Minister Tony Blair while Israel undertook a brutal 2002 offensive in the occupied West Bank.
Sources: Al Jazeera