Over 2,000 British nationals fought for Israel during Gaza genocide: Report

More than 2,000 British nationals have served in the Israeli military during the regime's genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

A report published by Declassified UK on Wednesday revealed that more than 2,000 British nationals fought alongside the Israeli regime forces during the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

The report is based on data obtained for the first time through a Freedom of Information request submitted to Israeli regime authorities.

The numbers stated in the latest report included Israeli forces with dual or multiple nationalities as opposed to earlier data that counted only 54 Britons serving as "lone soldiers" fighting for the Tel Aviv regime.

Consultants on legal matters told Declassified that the new figures raised serious concerns.

The data revealed that 1,686 dual British-Israeli nationals were enlisted, along with 383 individuals who held British, Israeli, and at least one additional nationality, placing them within a broader group of more than 50,000 Israeli military personnel with multiple citizenship.

Earlier data from publicly available figures were limited to so-called “lone soldiers” in the Israeli forces. This included foreign nationals without family relatives in occupied Palestine.

A report by the Knesset Research and Information Center based on the earlier data had recorded just 54 “lone soldiers” hailing from the UK fighting for the Israeli regime as of August 2024.

Legal expert Paul Heron of the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) sounded the alarm about the grave concerns regarding the significant number of Britons who were in violation of international law.

“There must be no impunity where credible evidence links British nationals to grave breaches of international law,” he said

“Where dual nationals have served in units implicated in atrocities, the authorities must investigate promptly and, where the evidence meets the threshold, pursue arrest and prosecution like any other serious crime,” he added.

Last year, a 240-page complaint was submitted to the Metropolitan Police war crimes unit, naming 10 Britons accused of “targeted killing of civilians and aid workers, including by sniper fire, and indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas.”

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One of the legal experts involved with the case, Michael Mansfield, an English barrister, said, “British nationals are under a legal obligation not to collude with crimes committed in Palestine." He emphasized that "No one is above the law.”

The report comes as part of a broader legal push by advocacy groups in the UK to pursue the figures involved in the Israeli regime's ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, which kicked off in October 2023 and has resulted in more than 72,000 Palestinians dead and 90% of Gaza destroyed.

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