16th March 2026- The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) welcomes the findings of the Gaza Tribunal report, released today, which unequivocally states that the UK Government has systematically failed to meet its legal obligations to prevent genocide. The findings were announced at a launch in Holborn this afternoon.
ICJP’s Director Tayab Ali provided evidence to the Tribunal at a hearing in Church House, Westminster on the 5th September 2025. Tayab provided evidence alongside 28 other witnesses, including first-hand witnesses such as doctors in Gaza and Palestinian journalists, as well as other lawmakers and legal experts including UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese.
In his evidence, Tayab highlighted the failings of the UK Government to uphold its obligations under international law. In particular, he highlighted the failure to uphold provisional measures set out by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to prevent genocide in Gaza, as laid out in January 2024, as well as the ICJ’s advisory opinion six months later, which ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory was unlawful and must end immediately.
He also highlighted how the UK had failed to uphold its obligations under the Rome Statute, the treaty which created the International Criminal Court, and how the UK’s continued licensing of F-35 fighter jets had met the threshold for UK complicity in international crimes.
This Tribunal came about due to the UK Government’s unwillingness to establish an independent inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israeli military operations in Gaza, including the supply of weapons, surveillance aircraft and the use of Royal Air Force bases, despite calls from MPs and civil society to do so. The UK Government had also blocked a private members’ bill that had been tabled, the Gaza (Independent Public Inquiry) Bill, that also sought to create an independent inquiry.
The evidence provided at those sessions has now been accumulated into a report that unequivocally states Britain has systematically failed to meet its legal obligations to prevent genocide. It also reiterates the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and calls for a full, official, independent public inquiry.
Finally, the Tribunal panel outlined thirteen actions the UK Government should take to end its complicity, including but not limited to: ending military co-operation with Israel, implementing robust sanctions, supporting the ICC and the ICJ and conducting investigations against British citizens who participated in Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.
ICJP’s Director Tayab Ali was quoted in the report saying:
“The people of Britain deserve the truth. The people of Palestine deserve justice. And history will judge harshly those who have stood by or, worse, armed and enabled and shielded a genocide.
The Tribunal’s therefore not only an act of truth-telling, it’s an act of accountability in the face of Britain’s profound legal and moral failure…Complicity in genocide cannot be forgotten. It should be prosecuted.”
ENDS
Notes to Editors:
- The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) is an independent organisation of lawyers, politicians and academics who support the rights of Palestinians and aim to protect their rights through the law.
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